Lexicon
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
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Lexicon
- If, When, Still
- Dreaming the Spectrum
- Literature
- At Seventeen I Learned the Truth
- Manufacture
- Collision
- Aloud
- Eros
- Grief: A Complaint
- Grief: A Petition
- Dead Mothers
- Plaint
- Her Want
- Another Childhood
- Awakening
- Insurrection
- Fashion and Beauty Forecast
- Recommendation Letter
- Glasses and Braces
- Regional Airport
- Why I Love Sleep
- The Old Man at the Rock Show: New Haven, CT
- Watching The Omen III: The Final Conflict on Late Night Cable
- Jayne With a “Y”
- Chasing Marian
- Ms. Jackson Replies
- The World’s Worst White Supremacist
- Ruined Things
- Emergency Rooms
- Rules for Writing
- The Courtship of Misery and Illness
- What They’re Thinking While You’re Reading Your Poems
- Giving Up Writing
- My Muse
- Mistaken Identity
- Seamstress, 1946
- Looking is for Poets
- Figure Study, Reclining Female
- Mea Culpa
- Philologist
- Chalazion
- Funk Box
- Ode to My Stomach
- Ordinary Dress
- Love Poem
- Token Black
- Radios
- Sidekicks
- Poetry
- Keisha Addresses Her Teacher on the Art of Poetry
- Pippi Longstocking
- People: A Ballade
- Laureate
- Why I’m a Terrible Bed and Breakfast Patron
- Women’s Encounter Group: Sunday Funnies
- Beauty Queens I Wish Existed
- Given Names
- Camp Counselor
- My Posthumous Mother
- Ravenous
- Domestic Humiliation
- Biographical Note
