Groundspeed
Published on 15. March 2016
93 pages
978-1-62922-036-9 (ISBN)
Description
Groundspeed moves and doesn't stop moving. From pastorals on American highways to self-reckonings after a cancer diagnosis to examinations on grief and transience after the death of a brother, this collection of poems asks readers not only to size up threats but anxieties. Phillips witnesses a small plane crash and examines roadside attractions. She reckons with sexuality after a partner asks for a threesome, and renders a candid portrait of a nude, post-surgery body in a mirror. In this raw and personal book, Phillips insists upon one's own preservation through and beyond grief and trauma with the warning "creation is only // myth; destruction narrative."
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Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- I
- Reading Ovid at the Plastic Surgeon's
- Life Vest Under Your Seat
- Stopping at Texaco a Year After My Brother's Death
- Wheelchair in a Hayloft
- Pastoral (Future Interstate)
- Entente
- Abstinence Lesson
- The Showers
- The Bright Obvious
- II
- YouTube: Dog Eating a Human Leg on the Ganges
- Lodge
- Static, Frequency
- Pastoral (Oncoming)
- The Episode of Cops in Which My Father Appears
- The Wind Lends a Voice to the Mountain Laurel Above Pretty Polly's Grave
- All These Things Shall Be Added Unto You
- Strata
- Tomography
- III
- "The Rising Cost of Dying"
- Pastoral (With One's Head out the Car Window)
- Phaeacia's Orchard
- Bruce Bickford at the Edge of the World
- Snake Woman
- Groundspeed
- Paradiso
- Saul Bass Redesigns the First Man
- Roadside America
- Cartography in Absentia
- Aubade
- Pastoral (Radio)
- Supine Body in Full-Length Mirror, Hotel Room, Upper West Side
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
