Lexicon
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Lexicon

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About this book

Lexicon is a worthy successor to Allison Joseph’s award-winning breakthrough, Confessions of a Barefaced Woman. This time around, this self-professed “barefaced woman” is setting her sighs/sights on language and what it does for and with and to her. Joseph loves language, making it her slippery passion in poems about childhood griefs and fashion faux pas, movie musicals and empty airports, “rules” for writing and rules for reading. Though Joseph loves language, it doesn’t always love her back—but in her wise, readable, and imaginative way, she persists while documenting the minefields of racism and sexism. Joseph finds joy in the most unlikely of places, and in Lexicon, her adoration for the written word lets us see those places in sharp and evocative relief. All hail this bounty, this Lexicon!

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Contents
  6. Lexicon
  7. If, When, Still
  8. Dreaming the Spectrum
  9. Literature
  10. At Seventeen I Learned the Truth
  11. Manufacture
  12. Collision
  13. Aloud
  14. Eros
  15. Grief: A Complaint
  16. Grief: A Petition
  17. Dead Mothers
  18. Plaint
  19. Her Want
  20. Another Childhood
  21. Awakening
  22. Insurrection
  23. Fashion and Beauty Forecast
  24. Recommendation Letter
  25. Glasses and Braces
  26. Regional Airport
  27. Why I Love Sleep
  28. The Old Man at the Rock Show: New Haven, CT
  29. Watching The Omen III: The Final Conflict on Late Night Cable
  30. Jayne With a “Y”
  31. Chasing Marian
  32. Ms. Jackson Replies
  33. The World’s Worst White Supremacist
  34. Ruined Things
  35. Emergency Rooms
  36. Rules for Writing
  37. The Courtship of Misery and Illness
  38. What They’re Thinking While You’re Reading Your Poems
  39. Giving Up Writing
  40. My Muse
  41. Mistaken Identity
  42. Seamstress, 1946
  43. Looking is for Poets
  44. Figure Study, Reclining Female
  45. Mea Culpa
  46. Philologist
  47. Chalazion
  48. Funk Box
  49. Ode to My Stomach
  50. Ordinary Dress
  51. Love Poem
  52. Token Black
  53. Radios
  54. Sidekicks
  55. Poetry
  56. Keisha Addresses Her Teacher on the Art of Poetry
  57. Pippi Longstocking
  58. People: A Ballade
  59. Laureate
  60. Why I’m a Terrible Bed and Breakfast Patron
  61. Women’s Encounter Group: Sunday Funnies
  62. Beauty Queens I Wish Existed
  63. Given Names
  64. Camp Counselor
  65. My Posthumous Mother
  66. Ravenous
  67. Domestic Humiliation
  68. Biographical Note