Sarah Lyn Rogers

Cosmic Tantrum

Poems

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A debut full-length poetry collection from Sarah Lyn Rogers rewriting girlhood and summoning mischief. A tragicomic exploration of codependent and transactional relationships: economies of shame, gifts as debts, businesses run like families, and families run like businesses.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Seitenzahl: 104
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 168g
• ISBN-13: 9780810147935
• ISBN-10: 0810147939
• Artikelnr.: 70829386

Autorenporträt

Sarah Lyn Rogers is the author of the chapbooks Autocorrect Suggests “Tithe” and Inevitable What. She wrote the Catapult column Internet as Intimacy and has edited award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Warm Blanket Tantrum
The Content Is Supposed to Burst from the Contain
Local Beast Time Travels, Body Swaps through Glitch in Matrix
Rage Practice
No One Wants to Volunteer for an Embodiment on Earth Anymore
A Toast to the Dismay of Certain Industries
Cosmic Tantrum
Baby Island
Posture of Dread
What Is the Bird in Charlie Brown’s Name?
“That's all I need—an ordered life”
Cross-Section of the Nervous/Solar System
Local Beast Recently Inhabited Shared Space
Subtweeted Again in the Shared Google Doc
Some Brainwashed Dude on Twitter Insists That to Be Valuable a Woman Must
Possess the Mathematically Perfect, Suspiciously Babylike Skull of an Angel
Let’s Practice Kissing, Compare Bra Sizes
Halloween and I’m the Only One in Costume on the Subway
Shut-in Tantrum
Vermin
Despite Many Proclamations, Little Edie Never Leaves Big Edie at Grey
Gardens
What a Person Makes You Hold—What You Hold for Someone—Lingers
Please Answer to the Best of Your Ability
Egg Trance
Golden Child Tantrum
To My Teenage Self, Who Always Fell for It
Queen of Wands
Self-Anthropology
Tantrum about My Uterus
Symptoms Depend upon Method and Duration of Exposure
Pot-Bound
Not Everyone Would Sooner Kill You Than Admit You Hurt Their Feelings
Local Beast Withstands Record-Breaking Silent Treatment
Applicant Must Have
Renter
Little Edie’s Memories and Her Flag Dance
Guided Meditation with Mean Voice
Artfully Vague Trance
I Could Signal Dominance in Email Correspondence as Trained but the Concept
Is Offensive and I’m Baby
Halloween: “What even are you, anyway?”
The Townsfolk Enact a Strongly Worded Letter
Local Beast, Kind of a Little Bitch Actually
Nothing Trance
Guided Meditation with Inner Mother
The Empress
Autocorrect Suggests “Tithe”
It’s the Local Beast, Charlie Brown
Guided Meditation with Inner Child
Advice from an Upper Grader
Exhibition: What Is It Like to Make Something That Matters?
In Which Music Activates the Ventral Vagal
Guided Meditation with Dead Musician
Ars Poetica with Need and Wild Cats
Acknowledgments