
Quiet Armor
Poems
Stevie Edwards(Author)
Northwestern University Press
Will be published approx. on 31. October 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-0-8101-4646-4 (ISBN)
Description
New poetry from Stevie Edwards, author of Sadness Workshop
Quiet Armor, the third full-length collection from poet Stevie Edwards, examines how capitalism and patriarchy impact romantic relationships and, more broadly, intimacy. Edwards considers the ways in which confessional performances of vulnerability can be coercive, whether popular culture encourages men to seek validation through sexual excess and aggression, and how we encourage women to be complicit in figurative and literal violence against other women.
Drawing on historical and mythological figures-including Medusa, Persephone, Shakespeare's Lavinia, Saint Agatha, and Saint Christina-Edwards builds a fierce investigation into how rape culture has shaped the literary canon, academia, and the world at large. She brings readers into the quiet and intimate spaces we create despite trauma-or perhaps even because of it. Ultimately, Quiet Armor seeks to reclaim positive intimacy, showing us not only the desperate battles but also the healing embraces. All the while, these poems ask us: What does the end of rape culture look like? How do we get there?
Quiet Armor, the third full-length collection from poet Stevie Edwards, examines how capitalism and patriarchy impact romantic relationships and, more broadly, intimacy. Edwards considers the ways in which confessional performances of vulnerability can be coercive, whether popular culture encourages men to seek validation through sexual excess and aggression, and how we encourage women to be complicit in figurative and literal violence against other women.
Drawing on historical and mythological figures-including Medusa, Persephone, Shakespeare's Lavinia, Saint Agatha, and Saint Christina-Edwards builds a fierce investigation into how rape culture has shaped the literary canon, academia, and the world at large. She brings readers into the quiet and intimate spaces we create despite trauma-or perhaps even because of it. Ultimately, Quiet Armor seeks to reclaim positive intimacy, showing us not only the desperate battles but also the healing embraces. All the while, these poems ask us: What does the end of rape culture look like? How do we get there?
Reviews / Votes
The poems in Quiet Armor explore the shadows and nuances of one woman teetering between conventional, gendered expectations and witch/martyr/saint/goddess. These poems unfold with improvisational energy, creating an ongoing sense of a life lived, of time passing, of wisdom accrued through experience. It is difficult to write of life's reparations, especially where love is concerned, without sentimentality-here, Edwards succeeds, and how: when we reach the end of the last poem, we feel we know the collection's speaker intimately, and we feel-some of us, anyway-known." - Diane Suess, author of frank: sonnetsMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Evanston
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
159 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8101-4646-4 (9780810146464)
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Person
Stevie Edwards is a lecturer in the Department of English at Clemson University and poetry editor of the South Carolina Review. Her books and chapbooks include Sadness Workshop, Humanly, and Good Grief, and her poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere.
Content
Parthenogenesis
Window Shopping
Easy as Pie
Ladylike
Nobody Is Lost
What Is Left to Say About the Body
Composed
Portrait of My Mother, Age 56
Spell for Undoing a Life Sentence
Essay on Guns
Verity
Clytemnestra, Daughter of Leda, Beholds a Swan
Dream without Men
Red Spell
Mouthy
Self-Portrait as Medusa
Calling Her Names
Elegy for Lavinia
Five Days Before the Election
Rumor Has It
Drunk Bitch Dreams of a Luminous Stream
Babylove
Harm's Way
Drunk Bitch Wants to Fuck Like a Man
After the Election I Woke Up
What I Left
Learning to Leave a Bad Thing Alone
Drunk Bitch Tries Her Hand at Recovery
Medusa with the Head of Harvey Weinstein
The Astonishing
A Few More Lines on Lavinia
Some Things We Carried
Medusa as Shield
Dread Myth
Some Lines in which I Want to Go On
Aubade with the Longest Eyelashes
On Progeny
Some Threads from a Depression
Ode to Chill Pills
Self-Portrait as Too Much
On Want
All the Heavens Were a Bell
Another Poem About Pain
Dear Extraterrestrials
Ode to Joy
Entreaty
Epithalamion
Tapping Therapy
Notes
Acknowledgments
Thank You
Window Shopping
Easy as Pie
Ladylike
Nobody Is Lost
What Is Left to Say About the Body
Composed
Portrait of My Mother, Age 56
Spell for Undoing a Life Sentence
Essay on Guns
Verity
Clytemnestra, Daughter of Leda, Beholds a Swan
Dream without Men
Red Spell
Mouthy
Self-Portrait as Medusa
Calling Her Names
Elegy for Lavinia
Five Days Before the Election
Rumor Has It
Drunk Bitch Dreams of a Luminous Stream
Babylove
Harm's Way
Drunk Bitch Wants to Fuck Like a Man
After the Election I Woke Up
What I Left
Learning to Leave a Bad Thing Alone
Drunk Bitch Tries Her Hand at Recovery
Medusa with the Head of Harvey Weinstein
The Astonishing
A Few More Lines on Lavinia
Some Things We Carried
Medusa as Shield
Dread Myth
Some Lines in which I Want to Go On
Aubade with the Longest Eyelashes
On Progeny
Some Threads from a Depression
Ode to Chill Pills
Self-Portrait as Too Much
On Want
All the Heavens Were a Bell
Another Poem About Pain
Dear Extraterrestrials
Ode to Joy
Entreaty
Epithalamion
Tapping Therapy
Notes
Acknowledgments
Thank You