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Poisonous If Eaten Raw
Alyda Faber
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Poisonous If Eaten Raw
Alyda Faber
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Shortlisted, J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award
In this experimental long poem sequence, Alyda Faber transforms the portrait poem into runic shapes, ice shelved, sculpted, louvered on a winter shoreline. Twenty years after her mother's death, Faber untethers herself from the mother she thinks she knows with wild analogies: depicting her mother variously as King Lear's Kent, a Camperdown elm, a black-capped chickadee, Neil Peart, Pope Innocent X, and a funnel spider.
While embodying the passionate relationship between mother and daughter, Faber's poems also expose the thorn in the flesh — the inability of mother and daughter to give each other what they most want to give. Endlessly discovered, yet ultimately unknowable, the poet's mother is complex, mystifying, and unwavering: courageous in her decision to leave all that she knew behind; bewildering in her fidelity to a damaging marriage; steadfast in her devotion to a God who is at once adamant and the source of ephemeral beauty.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Also by Alyda Faber
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Epigraphs
- Contents
- Portrait of My Mother as a Funnel Spider
- Portrait of My Mother as a Loon on Cranberry Lake
- Portrait of My Mother as Saint Felicitas
- Portrait of My Mother as Alex Lifeson
- Portrait of My Mother as Pope Innocent X
- Portrait of My Mother as a Vase of Sunflowers
- Portrait of My Mother on the Kitchen Window
- Portrait of My Mother with Clothesline
- Portrait of My Mother as a Field
- Portrait: Hidden
- Unasked Questions
- Portrait of My Mother Reading a Birthday Letter
- Portrait of My Mother Reading a New Year’s Letter
- Portrait of My Mother Looking at Eugène Jansson’s Hornsgatan by Night
- Portrait of My Mother on the Dance Floor
- Medieval House: Anger
- Portrait of My Mother as Diane Arbus Photographing a Boy in Central Park
- Portrait of My Mother in Vincent van Gogh’s The Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital
- Portrait of My Mother as a Pine Tree
- Woody Nightshade
- Vintage 1950s Feather Chignon Headband
- Portrait of My Mother as Dead-Lift Weight
- Portrait of My Mother in P.D. Eastman’s Are You My Mother?
- Portrait of My Mother as Franklin Carmichael’s Autumn Hillside
- Portrait of My Mother as a Black-Capped Chickadee
- Participant, Tronick’s “Still Face Experiment”
- Portrait of My Mother’s Fox Scream
- Cut against the Bias
- A History of Dolls
- Portrait of My Mother as Abstraction
- Portrait of My Mother as Walking Figures
- Early January Medieval Town
- A Town, Medieval, Built by the Mother
- Sheep, Again-Wolf
- Galleon
- In Her Kitchen
- Portrait of My Mother with Wolf
- Morning and Evening
- A Rough Measure
- Mimes
- On Brier Island
- Portrait of My Mother as Geddy Lee
- Marsh Marigolds
- Red Mackerel Tabby
- Portrait of My Mother as a Cow Being Beaten
- Camperdown Elm
- Portrait of My Mother as Two Hot Water Bottles
- Quinces
- Portrait of My Mother with Goats
- Self-Portrait as Great Blue Heron Feeding
- Distance
- A Town, Medieval, Built by the Mother: Summer
- Portrait of My Mother’s Prayers
- House Wren
- Portrait of My Mother as a Patch of Daisies
- Portrait of My Mother as Neil Peart
- Portrait of My Mother as Starling with Column
- Portrait of My Mother Looking at Untitled (Soft Monster in Angelic Landscape)
- Portrait of My Mother as a Red Kangaroo
- Portrait of My Mother as Michael Schumacher
- Her Hidden Life: Prayer
- Portrait of My Mother as the Duke of Kent
- Portrait of My Mother as the Palazzo Massimo Boxer at Rest
- Portrait of My Mother Picking Blackberries in Point Pleasant Park
- Self-Portrait as Joseph Beuys with Coyote
- Portrait of My Mother in Translation
- Hay Bales
- Portrait of My Mother on Almon Street
- Hide
- Portrait of My Mother as a Herd of Sheep
- Portrait of My Mother as a Moth on a Kitchen Window
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author