I Left My Wings on a Chair

"When the wire man in love with the boiled wool woman imagines himself making love with her under the emerald tree and then making her a mouth, is he desiring to make for her a mouth, or to make of her a mouth? Such questions charge Karen Schubert's off-kilter worlds.” - H.L. Hix

About the author

Recipient of a 2012 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in poetry and a 2013 residency at Headlands Center for the Arts, Karen Schubert is author of Bring Down the Sky and The Geography of Lost Houses. Her work appears in AGNI online, MiPOesias, DMQ, Water Stone Review, diode, Zoland Poetry, Artful Dodge and others. She currently teaches English at Youngstown State University.

Summary

"When the wire man in love with the boiled wool woman imagines himself making love with her under the emerald tree and then making her a mouth, is he desiring to make for her a mouth, or to make of her a mouth? Such questions charge Karen Schubert's off-kilter worlds." - H.L. Hix

Product details

• Authors: Karen Schubert
• Publisher: Kent State Univ Pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2014
• EAN: 9781606352090
• ISBN: 978-1-60635-209-0
• No. of pages: 32
• Series: Wick Poetry Chapbook Series Fi; Wick Poetry Chapbook Series Five; Wick Poetry Chapbook Series Five #3; Wick Poetry Chapbook Series Five #3; Wick Poetry Chapbook Series Fi
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama