Blooming Fiascoes is a collective of verse that deconstructs identity. We are beautiful and monstrous. We live in a beautiful and monstrous world. Ellen Hagan poetically mirrors these metaphoric adversaries, drawing on her experiences as a woman, an artist, a mother, a transplanted southerner, and above all, a human being. She plumbs origins in history, body, and living to question how we reckon our whole selves in the catacombs of a world gone mad: We mourn, we bless, / we blow, we wail, we / wind-down, we sip, / we spin, we blind, we / bend, bow & hem. We / hip, we blend, we bind, / we…mehr
Blooming Fiascoes is a collective of verse that deconstructs identity. We are beautiful and monstrous. We live in a beautiful and monstrous world. Ellen Hagan poetically mirrors these metaphoric adversaries, drawing on her experiences as a woman, an artist, a mother, a transplanted southerner, and above all, a human being. She plumbs origins in history, body, and living to question how we reckon our whole selves in the catacombs of a world gone mad: We mourn, we bless, / we blow, we wail, we / wind-down, we sip, / we spin, we blind, we / bend, bow & hem. We / hip, we blend, we bind, / we shake, we shine, / shine. We lips & we / teeth, we praise & protest. In these poems, Assyrian, Italian, and Irish lines seep deeper into a body that is growing older but remains engaged with unruly encounters: the experience of raising daughters, sexual freedom, and squaring body image against the body's prohibitions. This is a work where the legacy is still evolving and always asking questions in real time. Blooming Fiascos spindles poetry that is not afraid to see itself and the lives it inhabits.
Ellen Hagan is the author of Crowned and Hemisphere (TriQuarterly, 2015). A writer, performer, and educator, she has had poems and essays published in Creative Nonfiction, Underwired Magazine, Huizache, and Small Batch Magazine and in the anthologies She Walks in Beauty and Southern Sin. Her performance work was showcased at the New York International Fringe Festival and the Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival. Hagan serves as Poetry Chair of the DreamYard Project and coleads the Alice Hoffman Young Writers Retreat at Adelphi University. She lives with her husband and daughters in New York City.
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1. To the hawk that circled J. Hood Park 2. I am Not Dead, I'm Dormant 3. Your journey continues 4. Search the Distance 5. Gates Open 6. Once, 7. Itemization - Part I 8. Itemization - Part II 9. Nurse 10. To the dreams that made me search 11. To Raise You, Daughter 12. Miriam 13. Self Portrait at 36 w/ David 14. To the period still arriving & marking the whole of me 15. To 3:47am when your youngest throws up in her bed 16. None of it for granted 17. Picture This 18. Watching love 19. Miriam Dawson Hagan 20. A braid of time 21. High Proof 22. Same 23. To the breasts when it's over 24. What We Do Now 25. As if overnight 26. Tell me all the things you'd miss 27. To the sleeping woman in Cindy's bakery on the corner of Saint Nicholas & 179th St. 28. Soaked Mourning 29. To the woman on St. Nicholas Avenue whose thigh was a wilderness blooming 30. To the condom on 167th street sprawled between Findlay & College Avenue 31. To the woman falling to sleep beside me 32. Express to Work 33. To the broken mattress on Park Avenue & 167th in the Bronx 34. To the shark fin on the bullet train from Sendai to Tokyo 35. Shelter 36. Meditative State Safety 37. To Esmerely, at Claire's who tells my daughters it won't hurt 38. Tell me all the things you'd miss 39. To bouquet & bloom 40. Allow Me 41. The Meditation 42. Directions for that swim you know you want to take 43. Rainey 44. To the rubber band holding my jeans together 45. Tonight, ovulation reigns 46. On hearing that a pussy smells like fish in middle school 47. Carried Away 48. To both girls dipping bread in bowls of savory black beans in the Condesa 49. Advice to myself after my mammogram & yearly doctor visit 50. What Warms You Most 51. When My Father Calls 52. What I Will to Remember 53. Tonight 54. Today You are Kite 55. Lady in the streets, but a freak in the bed” 56. Roost 57. Museum of Sex 58. How We Make It Through 59. Each Day 60. For Miriam 61. I'm not dead, I'm dormant 62. What to Do
1. To the hawk that circled J. Hood Park 2. I am Not Dead, I'm Dormant 3. Your journey continues 4. Search the Distance 5. Gates Open 6. Once, 7. Itemization - Part I 8. Itemization - Part II 9. Nurse 10. To the dreams that made me search 11. To Raise You, Daughter 12. Miriam 13. Self Portrait at 36 w/ David 14. To the period still arriving & marking the whole of me 15. To 3:47am when your youngest throws up in her bed 16. None of it for granted 17. Picture This 18. Watching love 19. Miriam Dawson Hagan 20. A braid of time 21. High Proof 22. Same 23. To the breasts when it's over 24. What We Do Now 25. As if overnight 26. Tell me all the things you'd miss 27. To the sleeping woman in Cindy's bakery on the corner of Saint Nicholas & 179th St. 28. Soaked Mourning 29. To the woman on St. Nicholas Avenue whose thigh was a wilderness blooming 30. To the condom on 167th street sprawled between Findlay & College Avenue 31. To the woman falling to sleep beside me 32. Express to Work 33. To the broken mattress on Park Avenue & 167th in the Bronx 34. To the shark fin on the bullet train from Sendai to Tokyo 35. Shelter 36. Meditative State Safety 37. To Esmerely, at Claire's who tells my daughters it won't hurt 38. Tell me all the things you'd miss 39. To bouquet & bloom 40. Allow Me 41. The Meditation 42. Directions for that swim you know you want to take 43. Rainey 44. To the rubber band holding my jeans together 45. Tonight, ovulation reigns 46. On hearing that a pussy smells like fish in middle school 47. Carried Away 48. To both girls dipping bread in bowls of savory black beans in the Condesa 49. Advice to myself after my mammogram & yearly doctor visit 50. What Warms You Most 51. When My Father Calls 52. What I Will to Remember 53. Tonight 54. Today You are Kite 55. Lady in the streets, but a freak in the bed” 56. Roost 57. Museum of Sex 58. How We Make It Through 59. Each Day 60. For Miriam 61. I'm not dead, I'm dormant 62. What to Do
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