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The pact / Jennifer Militello.

Summary:

"In her newest collection, award-winning poet and memoirist Jennifer Militello confronts obsession, intimacy, and abuse. Through love poems inspired by such disparate spaces as a British art museum and the reptile house of a local zoo, poems comparing a romantic affair to the religious cult at Jonestown and a mother's role to a Congolese power figure bristling with nails, The Pact offers an indictment against affection and a portent against zeal. This book places pleasure alongside pain, even as it delivers Militello's trademark talent for innovation and ritualization of the strange" -- from publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781946482471
Physical Description: 82 pages ; 23 cm
Edition: First paperback edition.
Publisher: North Adams, MA : Tupelo Press, 2021.
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Machine generated contents note: Agape Feast -- Species -- Lineage Is Its Own Religion -- Sibling Medusa -- Sibling Invention -- Sibling Bipolar -- Sibling Frankenstein -- Sibling Parasitic -- Ode to Superstition -- Homesickness Is a Geographic Nostalgia -- Oxymoronic Love -- & -- Chemistry -- Anubis Love -- Geographic Tongue -- Odaxelagnia -- Erotomania -- Pledge -- Fretwork -- The Punishment of One Is the Love Song of Another -- What My Mother Wears -- My Mother's Interiority -- Job's Comfort -- Xkisi Nkondi -- The Narcissists Parts of Speech -- Xkisi Nkondi -- My Mother Is the Wasp Egg Attached to the Belly of the Tarantula -- The Pact -- Tough Love in a Vulgar Tongue -- Dear Hiss -- Poem to the Word of my Name -- My Mother Is in Antarctica -- Idolatry -- How Feeling Too Much Is Like Tracking or Taxidermy -- In the Rainshadow of Whom -- Blooded Cold -- How to Construct the Hero of a Western -- If Our Love Were Jonestown -- Lake Natron -- A City Mapped Out in Conversation -- Electric Fence -- Ode to Love.