
If my body could speak : poems / by Blythe Baird.
Title:
If my body could speak : poems / by Blythe Baird.
ISBN:
9781943735471
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Minneapolis, MN : Button Poetry/Exploding Pinecone Press, [2019]
©2019
Physical Description:
80 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
When the fat girl gets skinny -- Theories about the universe -- I didn't always salivate over skeletons -- Before the starving -- Dress code -- High school -- Girl code 101 -- Blood-rose -- Beauty revelation -- When your therapist asks -- Pocket-sized feminism -- Skirt steak girls -- I don't have to forgive you -- The ghost who stars in my poetry -- Evolution of healing -- Class clown -- Too pissed to be sad anymore -- Fossilizing trauma -- Concerns from a hot-boxed jeep -- Gal pals -- The way I was taught to love -- Marriage diorama -- Taxidermy -- The ship I built -- The kindest thing she almost did -- What I couldn't explain via text -- Smoke -- An invitation -- Lipstick -- The lesbian reevaluates -- Everything is fluid -- I lose my voice during sex -- For the rapists who called themselves feminists -- Balancing -- The aesthetic of rape culture -- To live in the body of a survivor -- More interesting than suffering -- If your body could speak -- Pruning into art -- Relapse -- Eat -- On an empty stomach -- Horoscopes for self-doubt -- Yet another rape poem -- Here.
Summary:
Through love, loss and the struggles of disordered eating, 'If My Body Could Speak' uses sharp narratives and visceral imagery to get to the heart of a many-layered existence, speaking to many generations at once.
Genre:
OCLC Number:
on1051133846
Availability:
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