The Animal Indoors

Carly Inghram

• Publisher: Autumn House Press
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781938769887
• Topic: Literatur
• Subtopic: Poesie

Poems following a Black queer woman as she seeks refuge from an unsafe world. Carly Inghram's poems explore the day-to-day experiences of a Black queer woman who is ceaselessly bombarded with images of mass-consumerism, white supremacy, and sexism, and who is forced, often reluctantly, back indoors and away from this outside chaos. The poems in The Animal Indoors seek to understand and define the boundaries between our inside and outside lives, critiquing the homogenization and increasing insincerity of American culture and considering what safe spaces exist for Black women. The speaker in these poems seeks refuge, working to keep the interior safe until we can reckon with the world outside, until the speaker is able to "unleash the indoor news onto the unclean water elsewhere." The Animal Indoors won the 2020 CAAPP Book Prize, selected by Terrance Hayes.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Assured Environments
• Disappearing into a Fiction
• Irreversibly Fucked it Up
• For a Moment, Everything is Small and Familiar
• White Tigers
• Praise Poem
• What Sort of Animal are You
• The Detrimental Years of Becoming a Young Woman
• Nature Adapted to Live on the Rock
• This Woman’s Work
• Not Eating was My Superpower
• You’ll be Ok
• Of no Specific Light
• For they will Inherit the Kingdom
• Timeless Oars
• Save You
• Just Lay there Flat
• Last Night I Saw a Boat Just as it was Exiting My Purview
• Frank Ocean’s “Ivy”
• I Feel Dirty Today
• Every Girl Wants a Pink Sky
• Animal Print
• Praise Poem
• What does the Ark you’re Inside Look Like
• That Which Carries Breath or the Living Wind
• Retweet
• America Self-Storage
• Righteous Violence
• A Darkness Invented by Thirst
• Bad Characters
• Competition: The Revisionist Sand
• The Revolution is Edible
• Recover from Whatever
• Just Having Fun
• The Infinitely Efficient Body
• And so, we Got to be for Each other what the other Missed
• Trivia
• Listening
• Liquify
• Sometimes U Do UR Best Work when U Got a Gun to UR Head Says a Man
• Painting the Hermit Crabs
• Need to be Needed
• Hypnosis
• If you Go into the Forest and Kill an Animal, not Only the Animal Kingdom Around Becomes Shaken, but the Trees Also
• My Desire is Red this Morning
• Resting Place and other Slogans
• Notes
• Acknowledgments