Virgin : poems /
Selected by Ross Gay as winner of the inaugural Jake Adam York Prize, Analicia Sotelo's debut collection of poems is a vivid portrait of the artist as a young woman. In Virgin, Sotelo walks the line between autobiography and mythmaking, offering up identities like dishes at a feast. These poems...
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Minneapolis, Minnesota :
Milkweed Editions,
[2018]
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1742025 |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Do You Speak Virgin?
- Taste
- Summer Barbecue with Two Men
- A Little Charm
- You Really Killed That '80s Love Song
- Expiration Date
- Apologia over Marinated Lamb
- Purgatory Tastes Like Eggs
- Revelation
- South Texas Persephone
- Revelation at the All-Girls School
- Private Property
- Philosopher King
- I'm Trying to Write a Poem about a Virgin and It's Awful
- Humiliation
- Trauma with Damp Stairwell
- Trauma with Haberdashery
- Trauma with White Agnostic Male
- Trauma with a Second Chance at Humiliation
- Pastoral
- My Father &
- Dalí Do Not Agree
- My Father &
- de Chirico Asleep on Chairs of Burnt Umber
- Picnic Pastoral (with Dark-Skinned Father)
- My Father Lost in a Game of Chess
- Father Fragments (or, Yellow Ochre)
- Myth
- Ariadne Discusses Theseus in Relation to the Minotaur
- Ariadne's Guide to Getting a Man
- Death Wish
- Theseus at the Naxos Apartment Complex, 6 a.m.
- Ariadne at the Naxos Apartment Complex, 10 a.m.
- Ariadne Plays the Physician
- Parable
- My Mother as the Voice of Kahlo
- The Minotaur Invents the Circumstances of His Birth
- My Mother as the Face of God
- The Minotaur's Letter to Ariadne
- Separation Anxiety
- My Mother &
- the Parable of the Lemons
- Rest Cure
- Fast Track
- The Single Girl's Rest Cure
- My English Victorian Dating Troubles
- The Ariadne Year
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author.