Status Pending
Published on 15. September 2023
120 pages
978-1-954245-73-0 (ISBN)
Description
A riotous yet deceptively serious addition to Adrian Blevins' oeuvre, Status Pending exquisitely leverages the lyric to fathom the liminality of human experience. These poems comprise a stenography of our lives as the buffering consciousness between voided states. Blevins straddles various faultlines as a woman who writes and mothers, who emerges from a second divorce as an Appalachian transplant in New England, who sees from midlife the stringent but unspoken socioeconomic strata framing class conflict. If marriage "e;was a rope across a twilight abyss (an abscess),"e; if aging brings the hateful labels "e;OUT OF ORDER / & LATE FEE,"e; every disappointment uncovers rejuvenating clarity. "e;Bereavement status"e; engenders both heartbreak and hope, somehow, as "e;then you lose your losses."e; Blevins triumphs in her reclamation of the spectacular in the mundane. "e;America is a flub. // A hack. A crime! America, fuck you for making // despondent bandits of us - / for blinding & hooding // & chaining & gagging us."e; Even perched on shifting tectonic plates, Blevins wins the last word: "e;You don't seem to know it, // but there are foxes / crossing meadows // out there fast as disco lights. There are loons on your lakes."e; Amen.
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Content
- Intro
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Love Poem for Leonardo da Vinci
- Itinerant Granny / Holed Up a Wily Ridge
- Status, Alas
- Exile Status
- Identity Status
- Medical Status
- Fallout Status
- Old Boyfriend Prison Status
- Crone Status
- Renegade Status
- Tragedy Status
- Huffy Sicko or/ Psycho or Sailor or Whore
- Name Status
- Facebook Status
- Change of Status
- Status Field
- Trouble Status
- Life Status
- Spit / That Used to be Paper in the Girl's Diary with the Word / "Deadfall" Written on It
- Flight Status
- Code Status
- Relationship Status
- Status Uncertain
- Injury Status
- Refund Status
- Rx Status
- Blabbermouth Status
- Settlement Status
- Elegy Status
- Marital Status
- Facebook Status on Why the Marriage Failed
- Resolution Status
- Bereavement Status
- A Kind / Of Mist that was More Like Smog or Raid or Msg
- Status Quo
- Cult Status
- Low Status
- Panty Status
- Social Status
- Status Glam
- Regular Status Anxiety
- Southern Status Anxiety
- Northern Status Anxiety
- Academic Status Anxiety
- Overall Status
- Not / A Spider in the Corner of a Jail / In the Middle of the Sahara in Late / July
- Academician Abecedarian Status
- Coping Status
- Naysayer Status
- Limbo Status
- Mental Health Status
- Dead Mother Status
- Mourning Status
- Status Report
- Privation Status
- Fox Heart
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
