Empty Clip
Published on 23. April 2018
64 pages
978-1-62922-101-4 (ISBN)
Description
The poems of Empty Clip bore into the cultures of violence in the United States while candidly cross-firing upon the poets' complicity and testifying on these cultures' effects upon female body image and mental health. From a meditation about a bullet hole-animated PowerPoint presentation on campus shooters to the startled invective against an unprovoked dick pic, lyrics brooding upon illness-driven suicidal thoughts to narratives about a slippery memory of childhood abuse, Emilia Phillips's third poetry collection sears with the "e;angry love"e; of self, in order to find some truth that's nevertheless "e;a broken bone that can't be set."e;
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Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- This is how I came to know how to
- Hollow Point
- To the Neighbor Boy with His Father's Hunting Rifle, Begging the Police to Shoot
- Hollow Point
- Before Hotel Security Got There
- Overpass
- Campus Shooter PowerPoint and Information Session
- To the Previous Tenant
- Denouement
- Apostrophe, Oregon Hill
- On a Late-Night Encounter with a Barefoot College Student Wearing Only a Party Dress and a Man's Blazer
- Nocturne, Lamar's Chrystal Lounge
- One Year After Contemplating Suicide
- Split Screen
- "The days that were have now"
- The CIA Live-tweets the Assassination of Usama Bin Ladin Five Years Later
- The Uncanny Valley
- Pica of Unsaid Things
- Barista
- Fingers in a Throat
- facesofdeath.com
- Scar
- On Receipt of a Dick Pic
- Self-Portrait Without a Body
- Dream of the Phone Booth
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
