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"By leaning into the many registers of heartbreak, Sotelo makes something incredibly beautiful."-Ross Gay
List of contents
CONTENTS
Do You Speak Virgin?
TASTE
Summer Barbecue with Two Men
A Little Charm
You Really Killed That ‘80s Love Song
Party of One (For We Are All One)
Apologia Over Marinated Lamb
Purgatory Tastes Like Eggs
REVELATION
South Texas Persephone
Revelation at the All-Girls School
Summer Seminar
Long Distance
I’m Trying to Write a Poem about Virgin and It’s Awful
HUMILIATION
Trauma with Damp Stairwell
Trauma with Haberdashery
Trauma with White Agnostic Male
Trauma with Second Chance at Humiliation
PASTORAL
My Father and Dalí Do Not Agree
My Father and Di Chirico Asleep on Chairs of Burnt Umber
Picnic Pastoral (with Dark-Skinned Father)
My Father Lost in a Game of Chess
My Father’s Lover Lodged in Glass
MYTH
Ariadne Discusses Theseus in Relation to the Minotaur
Ariadne’s Guide to Getting a Man
Death Wish
Theseus at the Naxos Apartment Complex, 6 AM
Ariadne at the Naxos Apartment Complex, 10 AM
Theseus Returns from the Athens Treatment Center
Ariadne Plays the Physician
PARABLE
My Mother As the Voice of Kahlo
The Minotaur Invents the Circumstances of His Birth
My Mother As the Face of God
The Minotaur’s Letter to Ariadne
Separation Anxiety
My Mother & the Parable of the Lemons
REST CURE
Fast Track
The Single Girl’s Rest Cure
My English Victorian Dating Troubles
The Ariadne Year
Acknowledgments
About the author
Analicia Sotelo is the author of
Nonstop Godhead, which was selected by Rigoberto González for a 2016 Poetry Society of America National Chapbook Fellowship. Her poem "I'm Trying to Write a Poem About a Virgin and It's Awful" was selected for
Best New Poets 2015 by Tracy K. Smith. Her poems have also appeared or are forthcoming in the
New Yorker,
Boston Review,
Kenyon Review,
New England Review, and
Iowa Review. She earned her MFA from the University of Houston and works for Writers in the Schools in Houston.
