Laura Bylenok

Living Room (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

2023 Virginia Literary Awards Finalist Eric Hoffer Book Award Category Finalist Deeply phenomenological and ecological, Laura Bylenok's poems in Living Room imagine the lived reality of other organisms and kinds of life, including animals, plants, bacteria, buildings, and rocks. They explore the permeability of human and nonhuman experience, intelligence, language, and subjectivity. In particular, the poems consider so-called model organisms-nonhuman species studied to understand specific and often human biological processes, diseases, and phenomena-as well as an experience of self and world that cannot be objectively quantified. The impulse of these poems is to slow down, to see and feel, and to listen closely. Language becomes solid, palpable as fruit. Long lines propel breath and push past the lung's capacity. Life at a cellular level, synthesis and symbiosis, is revealed through forests, fairy tales, and vines that grow over abandoned houses and hospital rooms. A living room is considered as a room that is lived in and also a room that is alive. Cells are living rooms. A self is a room that shares walls with others. Interconnection and interplay are thematic, and the network of poems becomes a linguistic rendering of a heterogeneous and nonhierarchical ecosystem, using the language of biology, genetics, and neurochemistry alongside fairy tale and dream to explore the interior spaces of grief, motherhood, mortality, and self.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Backwaters Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496234605
• Artikelnr.: 72465296

Autorenporträt

Laura Bylenok is an assistant professor of English at University of Mary Washington. She is the author of Warp, winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the chapbook a/0.  

Inhaltsangabe

Autotheory
Waiting Room
Forest Floor
Common Fraction
Mirror Stage
Decomposition
Waiting Room
Living Room
Decomp Sonnets
Dura Mater
Decomp
Ecological Self
Open Field
Symbiosis
Autotheory
b73
Blue
Language Game
Zea mays
Oogenesis
Model Organism
Living Room
Habit
Heirloom
Fairy Tale with Redox
Elegy with Redox
Redox
Parable of the Wolf
Acknowledgments
Notes