Mouths

by Claire Marie Stancek

The poems in MOUTHS attempt the impossible task of speaking outside human language and after the end of human life. That they always already fail to do so is thematized in chafing refrains, syntactic disjunctions, and the accusatory second person pronoun, which addresses at once the reader and the poetry's own uncomfortable materiality. MOUTHS is a manifestation of apocalyptic lyric: experimental, eco-critical, and feminist, its varied forms span...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934819638
• ISBN13: 9781934819630
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Noemi Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.9" x 8.9"