by Natalie Kenvin
Forward by Carolyn Forché
New Poets of America Series
Chosen
by renowned poet Carolyn Forché as a finalist in the 1993
AWP Award Series in Poetry, Bruise Theory is Natalie
Kenvin's debut poetry collection. Compact and powerful, her poems
fly like small fists. Here are poems that address emotional illness,
mother-daughter relationships, friendship and erotic love, physical
abuse and the strength it takes to endure. These poems reveal
Kenvin's extraordinary sympathy for her subjects-from her daughter
in the throes of emotional illness to the bold figure of the character
Sweetie.
Meat and Memory
When
my father receded, I became small
Like
a stain, an apostrophe of blood.
Now
I long to be darkly full.
I want
to get back to his marrow and root.
In
the market I stare at packets of meat,
Blood
loose beneath the cellophane,
Sap
from a sticky wound.
Portions
are mapped on the side of a cow
As
though they were countries,
The
ruby geography of grist and bone.
I miss
him,
But
all is altered inside.
I hear
my death in the drying of blood,
The
smell of meat and memory.
©
BOA Editions, Ltd 1995
Available editions:
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Cloth
ISBN: 1-880238-20-9
Price: $20.00
Publishing Date: January 1995
Paperback
ISBN: 1-880238-21-7
Price: $12.50
Publishing Date: January 1995
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