| Embouchure: Poems Contributor(s): Phillips, Emilia (Author) |
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ISBN: 1629222089 ISBN-13: 9781629222080 Publisher: University of Akron Press OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Lgbt - Poetry | Women Authors - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.8" W x 8.7" (0.45 lbs) 90 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: ★This poignant and intimate account of discovery hums with pitch-perfect humor and triumphs that hit hard. Publishers Weekly, starred review An embouchure is the way in which a wind musician applies their mouth to an instrument's mouthpiece, and Embouchure, Emilia Phillips's fourth poetry collection, sets its mouth, ready to play. Trumpeting a picaresque coming out story, the poems are at turns self-deprecatory and revelatory, exploring sexual fluidity and non-monosexuality. From the speaker's adolescent crushes to her closeted 20s to her eventual acceptance of queerness, her disarming joy--even at her own mistakes--is cut with challenges to toxic masculinity and reckonings with anticipatory anxiety. The tomboy the speaker once was is transfigured into "a presexual soft butch / Medusa" with a "beautiful, beautiful / body that didn't know yet // how to contain itself." Elsewhere, the speaker evades a Dickinsonian personification of Death, who seems more like an inescapable ex-boyfriend than a welcome bridegroom. Phillips's mock-confessionalism is as brassy as it is vulnerable. |