Ringer
Poems
Published on 16. August 2019
94 pages
978-0-8229-8696-6 (ISBN)
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Ringer approaches womanhood from two directions: an examination of ways that women's identities are tied to domestic spaces, like homes, cars, grocery stores, and daycare centers; and a consideration of physical, sexual, and political violence against women, both historically and in the present day. Lehmann's poems look outward, and go beyond cataloguing trespasses against women by biting back against patriarchal systems of oppression, and against perpetrators of violence against women. Many poems in Ringer are ecopoetical, functioning in a "junk" or "sad" pastoral mode, inhabiting abandoned, forgotten, and sometimes impoverished landscapes of rural America.
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Rebecca Lehmann is the author of the poetry collections Ringer, winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and Between the Crackups. Her writing has been featured in the American Poetry Review, the Threepenny Review, NPR's the Slowdown, and other venues. Her debut novel, The Beheading Game, is forthcoming from Crown Publishing. Originally from Door County, Wisconsin, Lehmann teaches creative writing at Saint Mary's College in Indiana and is the founding editor of Couplet Poetry.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Natural History
- One
- Ringer
- Amoebae
- Morning Lasso
- Corker
- Swerve
- Time Traveler
- River
- Seas, Silver
- Snakes and the Dark
- Locker Room Talk
- Man
- We Got Stuck in a Colonial Painting
- Time Traveler
- Academia
- Portal
- Aubade
- Prism
- Verses
- Exit Interview
- Two
- Two Debtors
- The Beauties
- Dreaming of Mangoes
- The Sea
- Epithalamion
- Elegy for Almost
- Time Traveler
- Closer Than You Think
- Lepidoptera
- Hot Coal Spirit
- We Got Stuck in a Parrot Rescue Center
- Swan Road
- Go
- Time Traveler
- Into the Firmament
- Swelter
- Today
- No Name
- Three
- Alternative Facts
- Godfather Death
- Fever
- Come and See
- Good Friday
- Every Woman Adores a Fascist
- Time Traveler
- Snow Poem
- Ashes
- Dog Star
- My Life as a Fig Tree
- Maybe an Elegy
- Ice Storm
- Make America Great Again
- Enough
- Time Traveler
- Ulterior Motives
- The Afterlife
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
