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"My Reptile"
Little frilléd lizard
with your big mouth
and your clutch of egg.
Pure urge iguana
—I wanna wanna
wanna—heavy pet
in a moist habitat.
Your dewlap licks
down my spine;
your creep yearns,
yearns your crawl,
like a small machine
that you rev and
rev and rev until
the engine floods.
Gin and bleach: two clear liquids aiming for purity, bordering the toxic. Catherine Wing's poems are soaked in her cocktail, mixing doubt, loneliness, rough elbows, and razor focus. It riddles, aiming askew for a straight answer: how do we make our way through this world?
Price: $14.95
Pages: 64
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Imprint: Sarabande Books
Series: Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature
Publication Date:
14 August 2012
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781936747306
Format: Paperback
"Wittily rhymed and bloodily vivid, Wing’s poems of romance and damage show the poet seeking something to 'overwhelm me, a love-in-the-mist sort of time.'"
—Publishers Weekly
“Catherine Wing’s Gin & Bleach aims to burn us clear (as only corrosives like gin and bleach can do) to a better understanding of our place in the world.”
—Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal Pre-Pub Alert
—Publishers Weekly
“Catherine Wing’s Gin & Bleach aims to burn us clear (as only corrosives like gin and bleach can do) to a better understanding of our place in the world.”
—Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal Pre-Pub Alert
Catherine Wing's first book of poems, Enter Invisible, was the second title in Sarabande's Woodford Reserve Series in Kentucky Literature, and was nominated for a 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2010 and such journals as Crazyhorse, Chicago Review, DIAGRAM, The New Republic, and Poetry. She grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, on a street bounded by two florists, one cemetery, and a Carnegie library. She currently teaches at Kent State University in Ohio.
Lady Aphrodite
Wide Heart
Possible Audiences for this Work
I’m
Dominant Tom
Trash Bird
Field Guide
Fine Point
The Brain Truck
Petit Zeus
Conditions of ISH
A Mano
Twelve Bar Blues
Vitreous Humor
Dance, misery!
I Ask Myself
How Shadow Shot the Aerialist
Self-Medication
To a Wigglehead
Oh You
Area 25
My Reptile
Still Murmur
The Chiefest Word
Inner Weather
Self-Portrait with Doubt
Couplets
Tom Cat at the Kit Kat Club
On and Off, Again
Counting Song #5
Night Song
Death Marching Song
The Etruscans
Count Down Song
Eye-Fucked
Moth-Summoning Song
Amor, Amar
Cobbled Song
Your Other Other
Tom & Jerry Tailspin
Here, There
The Answer to the Riddle
The Darker Sooner
Enough
How It All Fell Out
Wide Heart
Possible Audiences for this Work
I’m
Dominant Tom
Trash Bird
Field Guide
Fine Point
The Brain Truck
Petit Zeus
Conditions of ISH
A Mano
Twelve Bar Blues
Vitreous Humor
Dance, misery!
I Ask Myself
How Shadow Shot the Aerialist
Self-Medication
To a Wigglehead
Oh You
Area 25
My Reptile
Still Murmur
The Chiefest Word
Inner Weather
Self-Portrait with Doubt
Couplets
Tom Cat at the Kit Kat Club
On and Off, Again
Counting Song #5
Night Song
Death Marching Song
The Etruscans
Count Down Song
Eye-Fucked
Moth-Summoning Song
Amor, Amar
Cobbled Song
Your Other Other
Tom & Jerry Tailspin
Here, There
The Answer to the Riddle
The Darker Sooner
Enough
How It All Fell Out