Sensorium - Poetry

"Emily Corwin's sensorium is a gurlesque party, is lush and anxious and blossoming with rot. In her second collection, Corwin investigates the textures of physical and psychic pain-the celluloid of classic horror films, greasy computer screens and text messages, ballrooms and hallways and pig blood, surgical instruments, lipsticks, medication, teenage romance and demons. Sensorium considers the beauty in body horror, the viscera boiling under a pretty crust"--

About the author

Emily Corwin is a recent graduate of the MFA program at Indiana University-Bloomington and the former Poetry Editor for Indiana Review. Her writing has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Ninth Letter, New South, Yemassee, THRUSH, and elsewhere. She has two chapbooks, My Tall Handsome (Brain Mill Press) and darkling (Platypus Press), which were published in 2016. Her first book, tenderling, was released in 2018 from Stalking Horse Press. She lives and teaches in Michigan.

Product details

• Authors: Emily Corwin
• Publisher: The University of Akron Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.04.2020
• EAN: 9781629221540
• ISBN: 978-1-62922-154-0
• No. of pages: 57
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 228 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 131 g
• Series: Akron Poetry
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama