In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2019]
Format: Book
Description: 60 pages ; 21 cm.
With calm abandon, Rob Schlegel stands among the genderless trees to shake notions of masculinity and fatherhood. Schlegel incorporates the visionary into everyday life, inhabiting patterns of relation that do not rely on easy categories. Working from the premise that poetry is indistinguishable from the life of the poet, Schlegel considers how his relationship to the creative process is forever changed when he becomes something new to someone else. "The meaning I'm trying to protect is," Schlegel writes, "the heart is neither boy, nor girl." In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps is a tender search for the mother in the father, the poet in the parent, the forest in the human.
Series: Iowa poetry prize.
Contents:
I. Show cave -- Novella -- Citrus cell -- Nature breeds a promise-keeping animal -- The animal that therefore I am -- Flesh turns stone into music -- The forested sea -- II. Early onset -- Clamor the bells falling bells -- Essay on the nature and principles of air -- Searches -- Fable on lunar formation -- III. Le soi -- Firewall -- Gethsemane -- Threat perception -- 52 trees -- Wind rings a bell the wind can't reach -- In light leaves collapse.
ISBN:
9781609386450
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LITERATURE Poetry Sch | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 59-60).
Iowa Poetry Prize, 2018
Iowa Poetry Prize, 2018