Author: Aimee Seu
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781629222226
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"Velvet Hounds, winner of the 2020 Akron Poetry Prize, is a completely combustible collection of poetry. In extravagant, shape-shifting imagery and mythic-meets-black-leather vernacular, Seu takes readers on a journey through reckless youth, first love, addiction, bliss, agony and mayhem. Velvet Hounds is a semi-autobiographical collection bearing reckless witness, with nothing held back, to the wreckage bulimia nervosa makes of a body and spirit as well as the pain and personal schisms from which such a disorder might stem. In Velvet Hounds, Seu also delves into the difficulties of growing up the biracial, pansexual, wayfaring child of a deceased pastor and fundamentalist Christian writer mother. The book chronicles the effects of her mother's and her own wavering mental health and through that lens, the incoherent and dangerous labyrinth two people's psychosis can create when they collide. From impassioned, ecstatic, abstracted odes like G-Spot, "strongroom, throne room of baritone ache" & Clitoral "Sinewed capsule / of holy spirit. My body, / the electric chair / berserk." To the clarity and searing vulnerability of narrative sequences like the long poem "Ox Hunger Essay" which chronicles different thresholds in the narrators struggle with death, betrayal, bulimia, and the isolation of identity "I developed a habit of wringing / my stomach out in my throat." Never shying away from the erotic, visceral, nightmarish or any juiced-up phantasmagorical earthly heaven, Velvet Hounds is a thunderstorm you'll lose yourself inside"--
Velvet Hounds
Author: Aimee Seu
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781629222226
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"Velvet Hounds, winner of the 2020 Akron Poetry Prize, is a completely combustible collection of poetry. In extravagant, shape-shifting imagery and mythic-meets-black-leather vernacular, Seu takes readers on a journey through reckless youth, first love, addiction, bliss, agony and mayhem. Velvet Hounds is a semi-autobiographical collection bearing reckless witness, with nothing held back, to the wreckage bulimia nervosa makes of a body and spirit as well as the pain and personal schisms from which such a disorder might stem. In Velvet Hounds, Seu also delves into the difficulties of growing up the biracial, pansexual, wayfaring child of a deceased pastor and fundamentalist Christian writer mother. The book chronicles the effects of her mother's and her own wavering mental health and through that lens, the incoherent and dangerous labyrinth two people's psychosis can create when they collide. From impassioned, ecstatic, abstracted odes like G-Spot, "strongroom, throne room of baritone ache" & Clitoral "Sinewed capsule / of holy spirit. My body, / the electric chair / berserk." To the clarity and searing vulnerability of narrative sequences like the long poem "Ox Hunger Essay" which chronicles different thresholds in the narrators struggle with death, betrayal, bulimia, and the isolation of identity "I developed a habit of wringing / my stomach out in my throat." Never shying away from the erotic, visceral, nightmarish or any juiced-up phantasmagorical earthly heaven, Velvet Hounds is a thunderstorm you'll lose yourself inside"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781629222226
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"Velvet Hounds, winner of the 2020 Akron Poetry Prize, is a completely combustible collection of poetry. In extravagant, shape-shifting imagery and mythic-meets-black-leather vernacular, Seu takes readers on a journey through reckless youth, first love, addiction, bliss, agony and mayhem. Velvet Hounds is a semi-autobiographical collection bearing reckless witness, with nothing held back, to the wreckage bulimia nervosa makes of a body and spirit as well as the pain and personal schisms from which such a disorder might stem. In Velvet Hounds, Seu also delves into the difficulties of growing up the biracial, pansexual, wayfaring child of a deceased pastor and fundamentalist Christian writer mother. The book chronicles the effects of her mother's and her own wavering mental health and through that lens, the incoherent and dangerous labyrinth two people's psychosis can create when they collide. From impassioned, ecstatic, abstracted odes like G-Spot, "strongroom, throne room of baritone ache" & Clitoral "Sinewed capsule / of holy spirit. My body, / the electric chair / berserk." To the clarity and searing vulnerability of narrative sequences like the long poem "Ox Hunger Essay" which chronicles different thresholds in the narrators struggle with death, betrayal, bulimia, and the isolation of identity "I developed a habit of wringing / my stomach out in my throat." Never shying away from the erotic, visceral, nightmarish or any juiced-up phantasmagorical earthly heaven, Velvet Hounds is a thunderstorm you'll lose yourself inside"--
The Waverley Novels
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
The Spur
Author:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope
Author: Ayanna Dozier
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 150135504X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
The question of control for Black women is a costly one. From 1986 onwards, the trajectory of Janet Jackson's career can be summed up in her desire for control. Control for Janet was never simply just about her desire for economic and creative control over her career but was, rather, an existential question about the desire to control and be in control over her bodily integrity as a Black woman. This book examines Janet's continuation of her quest for control as heard in her sixth album, The Velvet Rope. Engaging with the album, the promotion, the tour, and its accompanying music videos, this study unpacks how Janet uses Black cultural production as an emancipatory act of self-creation that allows her to reconcile with and, potentially, heal from trauma, pain, and feelings of alienation. The Velvet Rope's arc moves audiences to imagine the possibility of what emancipation from oppression--from sexual, to internal, to societal--could look like for the singer and for others. The sexually charged content and themes of abuse, including self-harm and domestic violence, were dismissed as “selling points” for Janet at the time of its release. The album stands out as a revelatory expression of emotional vulnerability by the singer, one that many other artists have followed in the 20-plus years since its release.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 150135504X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
The question of control for Black women is a costly one. From 1986 onwards, the trajectory of Janet Jackson's career can be summed up in her desire for control. Control for Janet was never simply just about her desire for economic and creative control over her career but was, rather, an existential question about the desire to control and be in control over her bodily integrity as a Black woman. This book examines Janet's continuation of her quest for control as heard in her sixth album, The Velvet Rope. Engaging with the album, the promotion, the tour, and its accompanying music videos, this study unpacks how Janet uses Black cultural production as an emancipatory act of self-creation that allows her to reconcile with and, potentially, heal from trauma, pain, and feelings of alienation. The Velvet Rope's arc moves audiences to imagine the possibility of what emancipation from oppression--from sexual, to internal, to societal--could look like for the singer and for others. The sexually charged content and themes of abuse, including self-harm and domestic violence, were dismissed as “selling points” for Janet at the time of its release. The album stands out as a revelatory expression of emotional vulnerability by the singer, one that many other artists have followed in the 20-plus years since its release.
Her Brother's Keeper and Out of the Depths
Author: Valerie Hansen
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373651546
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
Her brother's keeper: "Was church secretary Becky Tate kidnapped as an infant? It's up to private investigator Logan Malloy to uncover the truth about her mysterious past and keep her safe from harm. Without sweet Becky learning about his true identity ... yet"--Page 4 of cover
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373651546
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
Her brother's keeper: "Was church secretary Becky Tate kidnapped as an infant? It's up to private investigator Logan Malloy to uncover the truth about her mysterious past and keep her safe from harm. Without sweet Becky learning about his true identity ... yet"--Page 4 of cover
The Sportsman's Library; Or, Hints on the Hunter--hunting--hounds--shooting--game--sporting--dogs--fishing--&c., &c
Author: John Mills (novelist.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Big Book of Tricks for the Best Dog Ever
Author: Larry Kay
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 1523501618
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A step-by-step guide to more than 100 dog tricks, specially designed for effective training, for pure fun, and even for turning your dog into a YouTube star, from the coauthor of the tremendously successful and much-praised Training the Best Dog Ever and the genius behind "The Stunt Dog Show," which performs more than 1,000 shows a year.
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 1523501618
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A step-by-step guide to more than 100 dog tricks, specially designed for effective training, for pure fun, and even for turning your dog into a YouTube star, from the coauthor of the tremendously successful and much-praised Training the Best Dog Ever and the genius behind "The Stunt Dog Show," which performs more than 1,000 shows a year.
The Waverley Novels
Author: Walter Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Notes and Queries: a Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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The Official Horse Show Blue Book
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Horse shows
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Horse shows
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description