The Last Unkillable Thing: Poems

By Emily Pittinos

Book Overview

This collection holds a mirror to the self and in its reflection we find the elegiac and the ecological, as in "how much of enjoying a place / is destroying it?"; the worlds both domestic and natural, as in "when the redbird strikes the window, it is me / who takes blame"; a daughter shattered, but not without humor--"I can feel it coming on, my season of lavish suffering, the why me why me why me why me / that leaves me snowblind in the asking"--and, certainly, not without tenderness. Shaped by both concision and unfolding sequences, The Last Unkillable Thing is a journey across landscapes of mourning.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609387643
• ISBN13: 9781609387648
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 68 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.5" x 8.4"