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- Project Muse.
- Description
- 1 online resource (pages cm)
- Summary
- "a slice from the cake made of air processes the physical and mental trauma of abortion coupled with the desires for sexual and emotional love against a backdrop of contemporary culture--with all the sexualization that comes with race, gender, and landscape. From front to back the book is wound through with a single poem whose language is permuted, translated, and retranslated (from English to English) as it cycles around abortion, both asking "what artifact / do I resemble" and stating "small love / small / you failed it / in person." The poems directly confront the sexual self ("This isn't a real orgasm, a real patellar fatigue") and take up the thesis abstract as a malleable form for interrogating the inevitable intersections and overlaps of brains and bodies. Sexy and volatile, a slice from the cake made of air winds over and through itself, with no conclusions or solutions for the mess of living in the world"--
- Uniform Title
- Poems. Selections (Online)
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Alternative Title
- Poems.
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- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- OCLC
- ssj0001737090
- Author
Bertram, Lillian-Yvonne, 1983-
- Title
A slice from the cake made of air [electronic resource] / Lillian-Yvonne Bertram.
- Imprint
Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, [2016] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Edition
First edition.
- Series
Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on print version record.
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Project Muse.
- LCCN
2015046618