BOOKS - Glass Armonica: Poems
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Glass Armonica: Poems
Author: Rebecca Dunham
Year: January 1, 2013
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.2 MB
Year: January 1, 2013
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.2 MB
The "exquisitely crafted poems" of this prize-winning collection weave together past and present to explore touch, trauma, and the female body (G.C. Waldrep).The eighteenth-century glass armonica, a musical instrument whose sound emits from rotating water-filled vessels, has long held the power to mesmerize with its hauntingly sorrowful tones. Just as its song - which was once thought to induce insanity - wraps itself in and around the mind, Rebecca Dunham probes the depths of human psyche, inhabiting the voices of historical female "hysterics" and inciting in readers a tranquil unease.These are poems spoken through and for the melancholic, the hysteric, the body dysmorphic - from Mary Glover to Lavinia Dickinson to Freud's famed patient Dora. Dunham offers unsettling depictions of uninvited contact - of hands laid upon the female body, of touch at times unwanted, and ultimately unspeakable from behind the hysteric's "locked jaws."Winner of the 2013 Lindquist and u0026 Vennum Prize for Poetry