Retribution Forthcoming: Poems: Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
Autor Katie Bertaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 mar 2024
Influenced by Alice Notley, Eileen Myles, Rachel Zucker, and other poets of the New York school, the poems in Retribution Forthcoming blend a talky, quick, funny voice with candid examinations of gender norms, class pressures, and the existential. Their speaker explores her mortality anxiety through her experiences of gendered exploitation, reflecting on bodily autonomy and the nexus of violences that women face. Using oblique and direct strategies, these poems recount sexual coercion, the ways consumerist society reinforces and reifies gender conformity and performativity, and the psychological ramifications of these abuses of power. Retribution Forthcoming examines selfhood, consciousness, and mortality as they intertwine with our identities and the ways those identities are politicized. At its core, though, this book is an account of sexual assault and its aftermath, exploring how trauma interacts with belief and our ability to trust others and ourselves.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780821411506
ISBN-10: 0821411500
Pagini: 86
Dimensiuni: 152 x 216 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Ohio University Press
Colecția Ohio University Press
Seria Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
ISBN-10: 0821411500
Pagini: 86
Dimensiuni: 152 x 216 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Ohio University Press
Colecția Ohio University Press
Seria Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
Recenzii
retribution forthcoming fuses the abject with the sincere, the tender with the perverse. Katie Berta’s voice is straight-up. Barefaced. Flat-out. She catalogs both the worthwhile and the intolerable and the result is exhilarating: a killing bite into the marrow of whatever it is we think we’re doing here.—Claire Wahmanholm, author of Meltwater: Poems
Katie Berta reminds us, "The world is a fight" and these poems refuse to pull punches. In retribution forthcoming, sarcasm collides with an exhaustion of the patriarchal clutch on society as well as the stark realities of womanhood, poethood, and traumas rife with contention and devastation to the human psyche…. What I admire—what rattles me in delicious ways, what makes me say damn about retribution forthcoming—is how interiority gnashes its sharp teeth outside the skull. Berta’s poems are brutal in their honesty, compounding in their brilliance, and display the power of the mind—when infiltrated by a wounding world—and the mess, the necessary ruckus, that ensues.—Felicia Zamora, author of I Always Carry My Bones
I can’t help but feel that the title of Katie Berta’s riveting, painful, and frequently hilarious book anticipates not the downfall of some famously (or privately) detested figure (or figures) but rather a punitive backlash against the speaker of these very poems, foreordained the moment she started to speak. You may hold in your hand the comeuppance of a criminal! Such is the cycle of negative self-talk Berta enacts and scrutinizes, with her "terrible brain," gripped by both our era’s asceticism (with its drive toward nothingness) and a craving for connection and intimacy that has existed presumably from the first human snub. These poems roil with thought and with dogs and with media-glut. They overflow with fear and love; devastating events and numb, weak aftermaths; what to eat, or slather into your insufficient skin: and still their capacities for humor, for tenderness—their raw courage in the face of a virulent internal naysayer—thrill and buoy us. While Berta reckoningly excavates the "truth beneath an I" (and whether she can even believe in such a truth), her deeper search is for self-forgiveness, clarity, and joy. Can a book about rape and self-squeamishness and the twenty-first century’s alluringly pervasive threats (everywhere-to-everything) uplift us? Yes.—Sally Ball, author of Hold Sway
Notă biografică
Katie Berta's poems have appeared in Ploughshares, the Cincinnati Review, the Kenyon Review, and Prairie Schooner, among other places. She is the managing editor of the Iowa Review and teaches literary editing and poetry at the University of Iowa and Arizona State University.
Cuprins
Compact 1
/
The rattlesnakes they keep in the life sciences building
remind me of my dog 5
Everything we eat used to be alive, or still is 6
Meat 7
A magazine article is trying to convince me the bags
under my eyes equal cell death 9
I realized skin care would not save my life 10
Cosmopolitan 11
Feeling ugly 13
Remembering that time in my life when I used
to think a lot about innocence 14
Getting down on your knees really works 15
Batter My Heart, You No-Personed
God 16
I do love to win 17
Sometimes I feel exactly like satan 19
Inheritance 22
When you thought you were better 23
Will I survive this new season? 25
Upon Hearing about the Student Arrested at the Gun Shop 26
//
I lived in a beautiful place 31
How Is a River like a Woman the Poets Want to Know 32
Seven Skins 33
Like That 34
I Will Put Your Name Right in the Poem 35
My therapist is teaching me 36
I said yes to make sure he used a condom 39
Because I Want to Die, I Go to Nordstrom Rack 42
The women I thought of as popular in high school
are having babies who die 43
I do still like a microwave dinner 44
I am trying to drink more water 46
After I was raped the second time, I lost forty pounds 48
The NY Times Real Estate Section Publishes Pictures
inside the Expensive Apartment Belonging
to Your Ex-Boyfriend
and His New Wife 49
Whoa, am I ever one with this marled basketweave throw
in nightshade 51
On the way to King Lear, we see a motorcyclist who has died 53
///
Birthday 57
My City Is Also a City 58
Google Search Results 60
I don’t like it when you spray the house with ant poison 61
When I see pictures of my nieces playing in the snow 62
When I Ask Myself, Wiltingly, “To What Has My Life Been
Reduced?” This Is the Answer 64
Twitter Is Abject 65
Trucking toward oblivion, engaged in microscopic pursuits 67
Bad luck follows you 68
This timeline is 69
What the Machines Feel 70
Dream Catalog 72
Cave 74
“There is a me under this me who wishes to do lovely
in this magnificent” 76
A Poem in Two Attitudes 78
Acknowledgments 81
/
The rattlesnakes they keep in the life sciences building
remind me of my dog 5
Everything we eat used to be alive, or still is 6
Meat 7
A magazine article is trying to convince me the bags
under my eyes equal cell death 9
I realized skin care would not save my life 10
Cosmopolitan 11
Feeling ugly 13
Remembering that time in my life when I used
to think a lot about innocence 14
Getting down on your knees really works 15
Batter My Heart, You No-Personed
God 16
I do love to win 17
Sometimes I feel exactly like satan 19
Inheritance 22
When you thought you were better 23
Will I survive this new season? 25
Upon Hearing about the Student Arrested at the Gun Shop 26
//
I lived in a beautiful place 31
How Is a River like a Woman the Poets Want to Know 32
Seven Skins 33
Like That 34
I Will Put Your Name Right in the Poem 35
My therapist is teaching me 36
I said yes to make sure he used a condom 39
Because I Want to Die, I Go to Nordstrom Rack 42
The women I thought of as popular in high school
are having babies who die 43
I do still like a microwave dinner 44
I am trying to drink more water 46
After I was raped the second time, I lost forty pounds 48
The NY Times Real Estate Section Publishes Pictures
inside the Expensive Apartment Belonging
to Your Ex-Boyfriend
and His New Wife 49
Whoa, am I ever one with this marled basketweave throw
in nightshade 51
On the way to King Lear, we see a motorcyclist who has died 53
///
Birthday 57
My City Is Also a City 58
Google Search Results 60
I don’t like it when you spray the house with ant poison 61
When I see pictures of my nieces playing in the snow 62
When I Ask Myself, Wiltingly, “To What Has My Life Been
Reduced?” This Is the Answer 64
Twitter Is Abject 65
Trucking toward oblivion, engaged in microscopic pursuits 67
Bad luck follows you 68
This timeline is 69
What the Machines Feel 70
Dream Catalog 72
Cave 74
“There is a me under this me who wishes to do lovely
in this magnificent” 76
A Poem in Two Attitudes 78
Acknowledgments 81
Descriere
Containing poems about diverse topics, this book, at its core, is an account of sexual assault and its aftermath. Using irony, humor, and associative logic, the speaker engages in a critique of capitalism and the ways women’s bodies are monitored, exploited, and expected to conform under that system.