The Art of Perpetuation by Powell, Alison

The Art of Perpetuation

Vivid explorations of cryogenics, lion baiting, iDollators, dodo birds, SpaceX, and more populate The Art of Perpetuation,...
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Author: Alison Powell
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The Art of Perpetuation by Powell, Alison

The Art of Perpetuation

$22.53

The Art of Perpetuation

$22.53
Author: Alison Powell
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Vivid explorations of cryogenics, lion baiting, iDollators, dodo birds, SpaceX, and more populate The Art of Perpetuation, a poignant new collection of lyric essays from Alison Powell that troubles the boundaries between human and animal, living and dead, man and woman, adult and child. These nine whip-smart essays juxtapose personal narrative-memories of the author's childhood growing up in southern Indiana and experiences as a mother of two-with scientific, historical, and cultural narrative. Throughout the collection, Powell seeks to unearth, to peel back, to lay bare: "To pry something out of someone, the meat of a walnut from its enamel-like shell, is an excavation-to uncover a lie, an infidelity." Dizzying, fragmentary, and provocative, Powell's lyrical investigations dig in deep, coming up for air only to expose the meaningless of naming in a world obsessed with self-perpetuation. "To say a poem is like a body is to say one's self is a machine. To say a body is erasable is to say extinction is a temperate clicking.... And like that, with one hand on the glass and one gloved hand inside the mouth of the woolly rhino, you have done it."



Author: Alison Powell
Publisher: Black Lawrence Press, Inc.
Published: 10/01/2020
Pages: 50
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9781625578419

About the Author
Powell, Alison: - Alison Powell's lyric essays have recently appeared or are forthcoming in A Public Space, Black Warrior Review, Broad Street, Hayden's Ferry Review, Sonora Review, and Proximity Magazine; recent poetry appears or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Boston Review, Copper Nickel, Crazyhorse, jubilat, New Ohio Review, Prairie Schooner, and more. Her book of poems, On the Desire to Levitate, won the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and was published by Ohio University Press in 2014. Powell's work has been supported by fellowships from Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and the Crosshatch Center for Art and Ecology, and she has received awards from the Greensboro Review, Proximity Magazine, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and more. Originally from Indiana, she completed her PhD in English at the CUNY Graduate Center with a specialization in the Romantic poets. She is now Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Oakland University and lives with her husband, son, and daughter in Metro Detroit.

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