LEADER 03060oam 22004694a 450 001 9910962596203321 005 20190315172051.0 010 $a9781609384562 010 $a1609384563 035 $a(CKB)3710000000842432 035 $a(EBL)4689138 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4689138 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse54149 035 $a(OCoLC)957557706 035 $a(Perlego)2857650 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000842432 100 $a20160418d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$abodys /$fVanessa Roveto 210 1$aIowa City, [Iowa] :$cUniversity Of Iowa Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (70 p.) 225 0 $aKuhl House poets 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781609384555 311 08$a1609384555 327 $aTitle Page; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgments; bodys 330 8 $aVanessa Roveto's debut collection, bodys, is a work of stunning strangeness, force, and audacity, generated by-and degenerating toward-the unanswerable question at the heart of poetic speech: What does it mean to be "a person?" A dizzying hybrid of poetry and prose, post-human analytics and ribaldry, spiritual autobiography, and grim satire, Roveto lends exacting voice to "a most complicated vocabulary of feeling-your-feelings." Viscerally drawn to forbidden states and suspicious of its own desires, bodys is literature as high-risk, low-tech radiology, mapping the dim edges of identity and identification: "Brain scans indicated the moral center and the disgust center overlap on the mind field."Roveto's sentences hurtle forward with withering disjunctive energy, laying down traps of wordplay, tacking toward and veering away from syntactical targets, trying-on and sloughing-off pronoun positions with abandon. Yet for all its postmodern bravado-and irreverence, and frequent scary hilarity- bodys remains abidingly attached to exploring the problem of a human speaker addressing itself to another, and colliding with its own otherness along the way. It is the same problem-articulation as disarticulation-that animates the great Renaissance sonnet sequences, from which bodys is affectionately, and perversely, descended. What is bodys -what are bodys -anyway? A dysfunction in the body's ability to multiply itself? A dysmorphic take on the body's sense of its reality? A dystopian vision of a world in which boundaries between selves and others have been overwhelmed by commerce, surveillance, medical technology, nihilistic agitprop? "Last night one of the girls asked about the relationship between a body and nobody, " Roveto writes. "It was the beautiful question." 410 0$aKuhl House poets. 608 $aElectronic books. 676 $a811/.6 700 $aRoveto$b Vanessa$01805609 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910962596203321 996 $aBodys$94354311 997 $aUNINA