Begin with a Failed Body: Poems

by Natalie Graham and Natalie J. Graham

Book Overview

This collection of poems begins rooted in the landscape of the U.S. South as it voices singular lives carved out of immediate and historical trauma. While these poems dwell in the body, often meditating on its frailty and desire, they also question the weight that literary, historical, and religious icons are expected to bear. Within the vast scope of this volume, the poems arc from a pig farmer's funeral to Georges de la Tour's paintings and Toni...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820351202
• ISBN13: 9780820351209
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.2"