Stop the Ocean - Softcover

Neuman, Laura

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0991187806 ISBN 13: 9780991187805

Publisher: Stockport Flats, 2014

Synopsis

Poetry. LGBT Studies. STOP THE OCEAN drops us into a book without a beach on which to read it. Laura Neuman's poems ask: what geometries of language make spaces in which to meet-however briefly-here, here? Desire answers as a story embedded within others as traces of what was said and done. This collection begins with the problem of locating a body in a landscape. Here, a speaker tries out elements of the shifting locus for a rotating cast of surrogate bodies, continually moving house. Anything seen is fair game. In each case, the test of home is relation. Here, narration is many girls diving in a churning page exquisitely framed. Like the performers in the score of the forgotten dance, readers must shift from bodily context to another–warping, tearing and leaking toward presentness.

About this title

About the Author:

Laura Neuman grew up in San Francisco and currently lives in the Pacific Northwest. She/ze is the author of one chapbook, The Busy Life (Gazing Grain). Hir poems have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Tinge, Fact-Simile, EOAGH, The Encyclopedia Project, and TROUBLING THE LINE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF TRANS & GENDERQUEER POETRY (Chax Press and Nightboat). She has also collaborated with dancers, and from 2007-2011 was a co-conspirator with The Workshop for Potential Movement. Laura has an MA in Poetry from Temple University and an MFA from the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stockport Flats
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0991187806
• ISBN 13: 9780991187805
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80