Goodbye Tissues

Poetry. "Deborah Meadows' GOODBYE TISSUES constructs a conduit connecting the sharpened margins of the cleaved world. Whose voice can converse with her 'speech's speech' emitting from the inward-spiral of security and denial--a place of 'toxic outflow beyond fruitful bounty'? Meadows posits a 'poetational' reply--one that is urging both a hyperrational poetic thought and identification with an a-national community. An intensely thoughtful and thought-provoking investigation, GOODBYE TISSUES leads the reader away from no-thought discourse ('intelligence as it's called') into response-ability ('A thing should be repaired by the one who made it . . .') and toward possibility where "part of its essence acquires another, other, . . . or something between them"--Diane Ward. Other titles by Deborah Meadows available from SPD include INVOLUTIA, THIN GLOVES, and ITINERANT MEN.

Born in Buffalo, New York, in 1956, Deborah Meadows' family were ironworkers. She now lives in Pasadena and teaches at California Polytechnic University in Pomona, California. Her books include DEPLETED BURDEN DOWN, GOODBYE TISSUES, INVOLUTIA, THIN GLOVES, GROWING STILL, ITINERANT MEN, REPRESENTING ABSENCE, and THE 6O'S AND 70'S: FROM "THE THEORY OF SUBJECTIVITY IN MOBY-DICK."