MOUTH TO MOUTH by Abigail Child


MOUTH TO MOUTH
Title : MOUTH TO MOUTH
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ISBN : 1495186156
ISBN-10 : 9781495186158
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 132
Publication : Published March 12, 2016
Awards : Lambda Literary Award Bisexual Poetry (2017)

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Departing from Abigail Child's previous books of poetry, MOUTH TO MOUTH spans the past two decades focusing on a series of romantic and sexual relationships with both women and men. From inside the sexual whirlwind of these relations and after, Child's attention to language as embodied material highlights how mediated and multiple layers of desire can be just as thrilling and physical on the page. Even as this divergent collection of writing ranges through these relationships, it also ranges through poetic methodologies, using computers as a writerly id and organizing principle, employing constraints and aleatory processes, and recalling the body's desires in a constant process of titillation, problematization, and ongoing translation.

MOUTH TO MOUTH Reviews

  • Trace Peterson

    I believe in this book. It represents a challenging, adventurous project. It takes the author's biographical, sometimes sexual depictions of bi romance, and runs them through a computer algorithm, which was then edited by the author. It creates a linguistic world that is both recognizable and strange. It's a very sexy speculative attempt at a new mode of writing. This is confirmed by its status as one of only two winners of the infrequently given Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry.

  • Marlee

    This is the sort of collection that gives modern poetry a bad name. I tried so hard to get into it and failed spectacularly. Each and every poem is abstract and reductive to the point of being incomprehensible. I liked a handful of the random word choices, just for their uniqueness, but overall it was a mess. I was so excited to read explicitly bisexual poetry, with an emphasis on the sexual, but I honestly couldn't decipher it enough to see any evidence of theme.

  • Nicole

    If I could give this 0 stars I would. One of my favorite things about poetry is its ability to take seemingly disparate concepts and combine them to make something beautiful and meaningful. Unfortunately this volume seems to have taken this to the extreme, failing to create anything meaningful. Just utterly painful (and to make matters worse, strikes me as fake deep)

  • Jan

    I was excited that this poetry book was out as bi, but I didn't quite understand it. That's probably more because of my ignorance about certain movements like language poetry than because of any deficiency on the part of the author.