Ebook84 pages29 minutes
Glass Armonica: Poems
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
()
About this ebook
The “exquisitely crafted poems” of this prize-winning collection weave together past and present to explore touch, trauma, and the female body (G.C. Waldrep).
The eighteenth-century glass armonica, a musical instrument whose sound emits from rotating water-filled vessels, has long held the power to mesmerize with its hauntingly sorrowful tones. Just as its song—which was once thought to induce insanity—wraps itself in and around the mind, Rebecca Dunham probes the depths of human psyche, inhabiting the voices of historical female “hysterics” and inciting in readers a tranquil unease.
These are poems spoken through and for the melancholic, the hysteric, the body dysmorphic—from Mary Glover to Lavinia Dickinson to Freud’s famed patient Dora. Dunham offers unsettling depictions of uninvited contact—of hands laid upon the female body, of touch at times unwanted, and ultimately unspeakable from behind the hysteric’s “locked jaws.”
Winner of the 2013 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry
The eighteenth-century glass armonica, a musical instrument whose sound emits from rotating water-filled vessels, has long held the power to mesmerize with its hauntingly sorrowful tones. Just as its song—which was once thought to induce insanity—wraps itself in and around the mind, Rebecca Dunham probes the depths of human psyche, inhabiting the voices of historical female “hysterics” and inciting in readers a tranquil unease.
These are poems spoken through and for the melancholic, the hysteric, the body dysmorphic—from Mary Glover to Lavinia Dickinson to Freud’s famed patient Dora. Dunham offers unsettling depictions of uninvited contact—of hands laid upon the female body, of touch at times unwanted, and ultimately unspeakable from behind the hysteric’s “locked jaws.”
Winner of the 2013 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry
Related to Glass Armonica
Related ebooks
In Accelerated Silence: Poems Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Solve for Desire: Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBeautiful Zero: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Carrying: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Human Resources Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Cold Pastoral: Poems Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Hurting Kind Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Space Struck Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sixfold Poetry Winter 2020 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMeltwater: Poems Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Final Voicemails: Poems Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Pictograph: Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDo Not Bring Him Water Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Tethered to Stars: Poems Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Scared Violent Like Horses: Poems Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Moon Jar: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5River House: Poems Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Next Door to the Dead: Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSycamore: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wilder Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Not on the Last Day, But on the Very Last: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What have you done to our ears to make us hear echoes?: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Nightlife: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Clearing: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All Tenses of Thought Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I Know Your Kind: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sea Summit: Poems Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Milk Hours: Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSplinters Are Children of Wood: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ephemera Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Poetry For You
The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Sun and Her Flowers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Bell Jar: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Canterbury Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beowulf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prophet Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Collection Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Love Her Wild: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tao Te Ching: A New English Version Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Iliad of Homer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (ReadOn Classics) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Way Forward Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Inward Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal On Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leaves of Grass: 1855 Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gilgamesh: A New English Version Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beyond Thoughts: An Exploration Of Who We Are Beyond Our Minds Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Selected Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Twenty love poems and a song of despair Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Collection of Poems by Robert Frost Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for Glass Armonica
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
1 rating0 reviews
Book preview
Glass Armonica - Rebecca Dunham
Enjoying the preview?
Page 1 of 1