The Kissing of Kissing

Poems

Hannah Emerson

• Editorial: Milkweed Editions
• Año: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781571317766
• Categoría: Literature
• Categoría: Women in Poetry

In this remarkable debut, which marks the beginning of Multiverse—a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent­—Hannah Emerson's poems keep, dream, bring, please, grownd, sing, kiss, and listen. They move with and within the beautiful nothing ("of buzzing light") from which, as she elaborates, everything jumps.

In language that is both bracingly new and embracingly intimate, Emerson invites us to "dive down to the beautiful muck that helps you get that the world was made from the garbage at the bottom of the universe that was boiling over with joy that wanted to become you you you yes yes yes." These poems are encounters—animal, vegetal, elemental—that form the markings of an irresistible future. And The Kissing of Kissing makes joyously clear how this future, which can sometimes seem light-years away, is actually as close, as near, as each immersive now. It finds breath in the woods and the words and the worlds we share, together "becoming burst becoming / the waking dream."

With this book, Emerson, a nonspeaking autistic poet, generously invites you, the reader, to meet yourself anew, again, "to bring your beautiful nothing" into the light.

Índice

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• My Name Begins Again
• Becoming Mud
• Kissing Tendril Mind
• Peripheral
• Just Happy That Lovely Children Are Dancing
• Keep
• How the World Began
• A Blue Sound
• The Path of Please
• I Live in the Woods of My Words
• Please Try to Go to the Road
• Giveness
• The Underworld
• Connemara Pony
• To Go To
• The Sun
• Another Free Blue Vortex
• The Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful Dreaming Beast
• Throught
• Language of Leaves
• To Burrow
• Between
• Center of the Universe
• The Other World
• Love is Orange
• Irises
• Fill Your Arms
• Bring the Spring
• Animal Ear
• Pow Pow Pow Pow
• Into the Towards
• Teach
• Hannah Is Never Only Hannah
• The Edge
• The Reason You Became Human
• Come Home
• Lovely Burst
• Sugar Beat
• Cicadas
• Our Feet Become the Music
• Musibility
• Keep Yourself at the Beginning of the Beginning
• Sacred Grove
• The Listening World
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author