
- 120 pages
- English
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If Some God Shakes Your House
About this book
Jennifer Franklin reimagines an Antigone for our times in her third collection, If Some God Shakes Your House, where filial devotion and ossified roles of gendered labor become the engine of her defiance. Franklin's Antigone is ferocious, feeling, and unafraid of the consequences of speaking the truth to power about the political atrocities she has witnessed and personal traumas she has withstood. With a sensitivity that equally elevates the quotidian and the classical, and an attention that moves from the ancient ruins of Pompeii to the right of bodily autonomy and agency stripped away by our own Supreme Court, Franklin reveals the high stakes of our moment where "the one who does the judging judges things all wrong." Franklin's Antigone has embraced the sacrifice of self for something greaterāa dual devotion to her disabled daughter and to her art. "For twenty years, I have been disappearing," she writes in the book's final poem, yet she continues to sing.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- As Antigoneā
- As Antigoneā
- Memento Mori: Greek Gold
- Memento Mori: Bird Head
- February
- As Antigoneā
- Memento Mori: Moth
- Memento Mori: Wind Phone
- Memento Mori: Red First, Always
- May
- As Antigoneā
- As Antigoneā
- Memento Mori: Central Park Polar Bear
- Memento Mori: Doll, 1983
- Memento Mori: Mother after My Treatment
- June
- July
- As Antigoneā
- Memento Mori: Death Mask
- Memento Mori: Preparing to Move
- August
- As Antigoneā
- As Antigoneā
- Memento Mori: Annunciation, without Angel
- Memento Mori: Volcano
- September
- As Antigoneā
- As Antigoneā
- Memento Mori: Colony Collapse
- Memento Mori: Apple Orchard
- October
- As Antigoneā
- As Antigoneā
- Memento Mori: Northern White Rhinos
- Memento Mori: Muleteer of Pompeii
- Memento Mori: Buried Children of Tuam
- November
- November
- Creon Creates His Own Truth
- Memento Mori: Winter
- Memento Mori: Ice Storm
- February
- As Antigoneā
- As Antigoneā
- Memento Mori: Stradivarius
- Memento Mori: Forced Retirement
- Memento Mori: Mourning Mother
- March
- As Antigoneā
- As Antigoneā
- Memento Mori: Mentor with Late-Stage Lewy Body Dementia
- Memento Mori: Medieval Scribe
- Memento Mori: Aleppo
- May
- As Antigoneā
- As Antigoneā
- Memento Mori: Partnering a Runner
- Memento Mori: Pistachios
- October
- November
- Memento Mori: Shelter Dog
- Memento Mori: Empty Frames at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
- Memento Mori: Lovers of Valdaro
- June 24, 2022
- As Antigoneā
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- About the Author