Brute : poems /

Emily Skaja's debut collection is a fiery, hypnotic book that confronts the dark questions and menacing silences around gender, sexuality, and violence. Brute arises, brave and furious, from the dissolution of a relationship, showing how such endings necessitate self-discovery and reinvention....

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Main Author: Skaja, Emily (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2019]
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505 0 |a My History As -- My History As -- Brute Strength -- It's Impossible to Keep White Moths -- I Have Read the Whole Moon -- Elegy without a Single Tree I Can Save -- In March When You Tell Me You Don't -- [In defeat I was perfect] -- Elegy with a Shit-Brown River Running through It -- Philadelphia -- The Brute / Brute Heart -- Girl Saints -- Girl Saints -- Dear Katie -- Elegy with Feathers -- Dear Ruth -- [It wasn't about love] -- Elegy with Symptoms -- Indictment -- Letter to S, Hospital -- Rules for a Body Coming Out of Water -- Dear Emily -- Circle -- Aubade with Boundaries -- Four Hawks -- How to Mend a Faucet Dripping Thread -- Elegy with Black Smoke -- [For days I was silent] -- Elegy for R -- [Remarkable the litter of birds] -- Self-Portrait with Hawk & Armada -- March Is March -- Thank You When I'm an Axe -- Bright Landscape -- No, I Do Not Want to Connect with You on LinkedIn -- Clef -- Brute Force -- Elegy with Sympathy -- Aubade with Attention to Pathos -- Figure of Woman Coming Out of a Wall -- Elegy with Rabbits -- [Eurydice]. 
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