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9780299361044 Academic Inspection Copy

As Lightning

  • ISBN-13: 9780299361044
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
  • By Lenna Mendoza
  • Price: AUD $38.99
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  • Availability: Book will be despatched upon release.
  • Local release date: 08/02/2027
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 178.00mm) 96 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry [DC]USA [1KBB]
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Highlighting the prominent and contradictory place children occupy in Western culture, where they are at once cherished and reviled, As Lightning interrogates the nature of childhood itself. Offering multiple pathways through her own past via unexpected means-tests, riddles, word searches, rhyme, and a tour-de-force grouping of choose-your-own-adventure poems-Lenna Mendoza reveals the inherent pitfalls of imposing a narrative on a life. In a paean to "the stuffed puppy I won't leave," she deftly observes, "we can hold more than we think." This collection traces one multiracial queer girl's experiences of identity, sexuality, trauma, race, gender, and the body itself, in vibrations and resonances that reconfigure these lenses of self-awareness and the limits of our understanding.
Lenna Mendoza is a poet from Texas living in Tucson, Arizona. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Best New Poets, Prairie Schooner, Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts, Quarterly West, Passages North, Four Way Review, Foglifter, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Mississippi.
My Innocence "I put you into this world, I can take you out" Mother-Daughter chorus of dogs Play Kitchen Recipe for Steak and Potatoes The Sphinx Polyfill, or Loss of Appetite Babble: As Lightning / As Thunder Because of the Rattling Ceiling Fan Advent "A child's brain is like a sponge" ELA Practice Test #3 Prodigy, or Mexicans at Rest Made in America Lessons on Domesticated Animals The Sleeper Trail Guide to the Body (3rd Edition) How Loudly "Place" Begins Placenta "Nothing I haven't seen before" Haunting with Open Mouth Monoculture The Body, a Circus Act Skateland The Miracle of Life (1983) Dead Girl's Float Eve's Sepulcher Womb Music You can't really clean the piercing gun at Claire's "Spare the rod, spoil the child" Nuclear Family as Overlook Hotel The Fates Riddle The Lice Intervene No Holds Barred Cage Match BOY FLOATS AWAY IN BALLOON Fontanelle When I Say Family Abolition Acknowledgments Notes
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