Vulgar Remedies: Poems by Anna Journey (.PDF)
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Vulgar Remedies: Poems by Anna Journey
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Overview: Anna Journey’s second poetry collection takes its name from an exhibit at Los Angeles’ Museum of Jurassic Technology called Vulgar Remedies: Belief, Knowledge and Hypersymbolic Cognition. The exhibit comprises folk cures and rituals predating modern medicine; the poetry collection features hypnotic fabulations on memory, fauna and the body. At times tender and anecdotal, others grotesque and nightmarish, Vulgar Remedies explores the boundaries that divide, or fail to divide, the past from the present, the dead from the living and the self from the object of its love. If these poems are remedies, they treat symptoms of heartbreak, pubescence and the vertiginous business of being embodied.
Like Macbeth meeting Banquo’s phantom over dinner, Journey confronts her ghosts in unexpected places: in a blanket, a hummingbird, a streamer of red seaweed. But her world is far from grim; wrought with dazzling chimerical characters and an intense awareness of the body, its maturation and decay, orgasm and metabolism, her language is bold and bewitchingly erotic.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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