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The Decadent Movement: Poems
The Decadent Movement is a book-length suite of poems that spins backward in time through the early...
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The Decadent Movement is a book-length suite of poems that spins backward in time through the early days of parenthood and the preceding nine months of pregnancy. Beginning a year after childbirth in the harried throes of marriage and parenting, the collection proceeds toward its finale "Minus Time," which marvels at death's near-identical twin - that infinite period of nonexistence that precedes each new life. From the opening poem "Afterword," each dated poem slides backward in time, with the poem "Hinge" at the manuscript's midpoint spoken from the moment of childbirth. This unraveling of a predicament by playing it in reverse - "Muybridged / out so anyone could see, framed, a woman / running for her life" - allows for rigorously honest accounting of mixed feelings about motherhood and its accompanying physical and psychic changes, detached from the readymade tropes of the "pregnancy plot." The Decadent Movement is a book about the fear of loss (of sexual personhood, bodily self-determination, the ability to write, and the license to be headlong and volatile). Yet it is also about the need to insist on new terms of engagement with those we love, new languages of willfulness and desire.
Author: Laura Kolbe
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 09/22/2026
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 7.98h x 6.07w x 0.39d
ISBN: 9780822968368
About the Author
Laura Kolbe is a physician, medical ethicist, and writer. Her poems have appeared in the Best American Poetry series and in American Poetry Review, Conjunctions, Harper's, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Poetry, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. Her first collection, Little Pharma, won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize and was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her chapbook Keeping House: Six Longer Love Poems was selected by Kwame Dawes as the Center for Book Arts annual chapbook contest winner. She teaches and practices medicine in New York City.
Author: Laura Kolbe
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 09/22/2026
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 7.98h x 6.07w x 0.39d
ISBN: 9780822968368
About the Author
Laura Kolbe is a physician, medical ethicist, and writer. Her poems have appeared in the Best American Poetry series and in American Poetry Review, Conjunctions, Harper's, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Poetry, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. Her first collection, Little Pharma, won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize and was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her chapbook Keeping House: Six Longer Love Poems was selected by Kwame Dawes as the Center for Book Arts annual chapbook contest winner. She teaches and practices medicine in New York City.
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