something sweet & filled with blood - Softcover

Melissa Christine Goodrum

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0998144053 ISBN 13: 9780998144054

Publisher: Great Weather for Media, LLC, 2019

Synopsis

In her second poetry collection, something sweet & filled with blood, melissa christine goodrum demonstrates a growing talent. Drawing from her experience in a musical family, a deep well of feeling, and expansive knowledge of art and art history, she presents subjects ranging from Elizabeth Boott Duveneck and Susan Apthop, their true selves hidden--she might say jailed--on museum walls, to the works of artists Ronald Lokett, Manet, Degas, and Kehinde Wiley. Demonstrating facility in a variety of poetic forms, goodrum shakes up convention by imagining the inner lives and thoughts of these subjects through the lens of current day politics and issues of race and gender identity. The lively imagery throughout this new collection is fresh and inspiring.

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Review

"Brilliant and beautiful. melissa christine goodrum's something sweet & filled with blood is a new moment in language."
--Sapphire, best-selling novelist and poet

"melissa christine goodrum's poems are taut, burgeoning beams of ancestors, wriggling onto the page with totems of sound--history surrounding each page."
--Tyehimba Jess, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry

"something sweet and filled with blood is a great example of a collection in which the poetry is composed with the techniques of a painter...The colors that goodrum paints with are so vivid they allow you to feel (rather than understand) something about a distant scene."
--Benjamin Schmitt, At the Inkwell

"Like stepping into a gallery of haunting, distinct, and, at times, disjointed images that correlate with wild leaps of imagination. The figures presented, be it a woman wrapped in cow skin, or a Cheshire's head stapled to a wall, are not easily forgotten and will linger with the reader long after the final page."
--Pedestal Magazine

Edition details

• Publisher: Great Weather for Media, LLC
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0998144053
• ISBN 13: 9780998144054
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 116