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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Minneapolis, Minnesota :
Graywolf Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- 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].