Helen of Bikini

Reeves, Phoebe Phoebe Reeves,

ISBN 10: 1957755075 / ISBN 13: 9781957755076

Published by Lily Poetry Review Books -, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Helen of Bikini
• Publisher: Lily Poetry Review Books -
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1957755075
• ISBN 13: 9781957755076
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Helen of Bikini examines the way humans inhabit the world, both in beauty and in conflict. How do the twinned human forces of domestication and domination, rage and mediation, witness and culpability, destruction and nurturing, find their balances, not in an either/or, but in a melding? In an unapologetically feminist approach to these topics, Reeves explores the idea that "we are the only ones who name," and goes about teaching us the "alphabet of our unmaking."

About the Author

Phoebe Reeves earned her MFA in poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and now is Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati's Clermont College. She has three chapbooks of poetry, The Lobes and Petals of the Inanimate (Pecan Grove), The Gardener and The Garden (Seven Kitchens), and The Flame of Her Will (Milk & Cake). Her poems have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Phoebe, Grist, Forklift OH, and The Chattahoochee Review, and she has been awarded fellowships by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. She lives in Cincinnati, OH with her husband Don Peteroy, amidst her unruly urban garden. Helen of Bikini is her debut full length collection.