Full Description
Concerned with physical experience, pain, and disability, Veil and Burn illuminates an intense desire to feel through the Other, embrace it, become it, and in the transformation, to understand the suffering body. In poems about animals, artifacts, and monsters, Lambeth displays a fascination for all bodies while exploring their pain, common fate, alienation, and abilities. Hovering between poem and prose fragment, between the self and fellow creatures, Laurie Clements Lambeth celebrates physical sensation, imbuing it with lyric shape, however broken, however imprisoned the shape may be.
Contents
Contents Coming Down Symptoms The Spaces Between [Mesh Fragment] In a Field Distractions Rise [Fragment Behind the Eyelid] Riches [Practice Fragment] Seizure, or Seduction of Persephone [Needle Fragment] Large Loop Excision of the Temporal Zone [Halo Fragment] Onion Cutting Distance [Frame Fragment] After Eight Years In Japan, Woman Can Doze with Man Pillow Work [Gingham Fragment] Into Wind Ode to the Upper Lip Case History: Frankenstein's Lesions Alfred Hitchcock Meets The Blob [Gauze Fragment] After Cancer: Dog on Her Side, Post-Amputation Inheritance Hypoesthesia On My Husband's Birthday I Read Obituaries Reluctant Pegasus 1. Saddle 2. Membrane 3. At the Wild Horse Sanctuary 4. In Praise of Proud Flesh 5. Reluctant Pegasus 6. Preserved Fragment 7. Pegasus, a Ghost 8. To the Gray I Can No Longer Ride 9. What Holds 10. Dressage, or the Attempt at Training the Course of Illness [Mosaic Fragment] Wrong Turn Near Pecos [Chipped Fragment] Retrobulbar [Fragment Dissected and Sewn] The Merle Undressing the Tree The Shaking Heron Eating the Night Nicholas Ray Directs a Poem [Brain Fragment (As Seen on a Monitor)] Back Lot Field Notes 7 Washing Up Notes
