The Empress of Kisses : Poems / / Gwen Hart

• Autore: Hart Gwen <1976->
• Pubblicazione: Huntsville, Texas : , : Texas Review Press, , [2016]; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2021; ©[2016]
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (59 pages)
• Disciplina: 811/.6
• Soggetto topico: Generation X
• Soggetto genere / forma: Poetry
• Nota di contenuto: The empress of kisses: Spell -- The empress of kisses -- Life in the circus -- Tenth grade English -- On the perimeter -- Devotion -- Only you -- Bat in the house -- Flight of the six wild turkeys -- Messages -- The dead are with us -- Moving alone in the dark -- Training the dog -- Three -- Happiness -- Marginalia -- Birthday poem -- Love songs for Generation X: X marks the spot -- Time Machine, 1985 -- Challenger -- The girls' lavatory -- Light as a feather, stiff as a board -- Music education -- Junk necklaces -- Surviving the Oregon Trail -- If the shoe fits -- A kiss was a Polaroid picture -- Watching Molly Ringwald's mouth -- Nostalgia -- Thriller -- The last payphone -- Your heart is a Rubik's Cube -- Early introduction to Freud -- What lips! -- The PTL Club -- The needle jumps to red -- I forgot what a kiss is -- November 9th, 1989 -- Anniversary track -- Kissing in the rain: Kissing in the rain -- To summer -- Drought sonnet -- Eve names the kiss -- Origins -- Love note for Clark -- To Pygmalion -- Galatea comes to life -- Galatea alone -- Galatea and the kicking foot -- Narcissus after making love -- Enough -- If love is only chemistry.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Empress of Kisses explores the landscape of the human heart through free and formal verse. The poems chronicle a wide variety of relationships past and present, real and imagined, with family, friends, lovers, pop culture icons, mythological figures, historical events, and with words themselves. The collection features a special focus on the experiences of Generation X, the "forgotten generation." "This book offers all the pleasures that poetry affords--sonic felicities, skilled wordplay, resonant insights, and unexpected destinations. This is a delightful and memorable book."--Beth Ann Fennelly, final judge, author of Unmentionables November 9th, 1989 For thirty years there is no kiss. Then there is the possibility of a kiss, like a rumble or a half-heard shout-- did it come from this side or that side? When the kiss breaks through, we all struggle to register the impossible, how the wall came down, how their lips found each other, every obstacle reduced to rubble around their feet, the bright paint of her lipstick smeared, unintelligible graffiti all over the changed angles of his face.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Empress of Kisses
• ISBN: 1-68003-089-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910959354203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II