The Sweating Sickness
Poems
Published on 11. February 2025
113 pages
978-0-8229-9195-3 (ISBN)
Description
Rebecca Lehmann's The Sweating Sickness contains wide-ranging topics-the suicide of an abusive ex, parenting young children, fairy tales, reproductive rights, domestic violence, ghost stories, ancient myth-all set to the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. Both personal and political, these poems interrogate how we grieve, what it means to be a woman in post-Roe America, and how private and public ghosts can come back to haunt us. Surrealist, maximalist, formal, and with an ear to the underworld, The Sweating Sickness spins the reader into an eco-fabulist wonderland, where anything can happen, and does.
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Person
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
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- Beginning
- A Dozen Sons
- Night Elegy
- The Sweating Sickness
- Specter
- Paper Skeleton Villanelle
- Your Last Autumn
- Narrative
- Cat Costume
- Manufactured Autumn Leaf Holiday Wreath Villanelle
- Exit
- Two Dogs
- Moses
- Chariot
- Get Lost Serenade
- Unmoored Villanelle
- Inquisition
- Revision with Suicide and Ogres
- Middle
- A Dozen Daughters
- Cabin
- Salt Marsh Moth
- Mule
- Blue
- Predictive Models
- In Morning
- Nothing
- Ghost Sonnet
- Revision with Miscarriage and Man in the Moon
- Ablation
- Blood Moon
- The Red Planet
- Abortion Poem
- When the Wind Blows
- Train Villanelle
- Nike, Medusa, Jocasta, Split
- Two Lovers
- End
- Bog Body
- The Underworld
- Noose
- Leda
- The Moons of Pluto
- A King Holds a Crystal
- Revision with Playground and Seizure
- Skeleton Key Villanelle
- Simple Machines
- Orchid
- Elegy with Land Bridge
- Bear Baiting with Anne Boleyn
- Rock Cycle
- Pastel
- Storm Sonnet
- Flowers with Anne Boleyn
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
