Without Protection
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Without Protection

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Without Protection

About this book

From Russian fairy tales to Craigslist ads, stories of identity, family, and sexuality are unraveled and woven anew in poems of a woman caught between two worlds.

In poems rich with sensuality and discord, Mukomolova explores her complex identity—Russian, Jewish, refugee, New Yorker, lesbian—through the Russian tale of Vasilyssa, a young girl left to fend for herself against the witch Baba Yaga. Heavy with family and fable, these poems are a beautiful articulation of difference under duress.

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Information

Publisher
Coffee House Press
Year
2019
eBook ISBN
9781566895521
Edition
0
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. The Heroine & the Witch
  7. Thereā€™s always a forest I know
  8. Return
  9. On the Brighton Beach boardwalk
  10. We go around in a circle
  11. I saw a woman lunge into the pit
  12. Vasilyssa Comes to Call
  13. Body, mud-wet field
  14. She calls me just like I knew she would
  15. Received
  16. High school wasnā€™t always two towers crashing
  17. Tenderness
  18. Thereā€™s a young man, a teenager
  19. Found
  20. Vasilyssa Wants to Know What Love Is
  21. L. visits me for nine days
  22. Norā€™easter and new moon
  23. Twenty, sunburnt at Brooklyn Pride
  24. Iā€™m on the sixth floor, Jennyā€™s on third
  25. Coney Island Vasya
  26. Iā€™ve been to Riis Beach
  27. As if it were against better judgment
  28. Found
  29. After Manuela, a telenovela dubbed in Russian
  30. Vasilyssa Considers the Dark Path
  31. He begins by sliding the edge against stone
  32. I ask my mother for something small
  33. My brother
  34. All night the squirrels
  35. Kitchen
  36. Good girl
  37. Copernicus
  38. Valentine
  39. In the New Yorker, a poem
  40. the voices of women who sound like birds
  41. The Key to All Locks Is a Fearless Heart
  42. Weekends with my mother
  43. But, like, where is the body?
  44. Pablo slides his finger through a hole
  45. First week of high school, the Towers fall
  46. Vasya, in Bed
  47. Floppy disks
  48. Eric lives above a small clinic
  49. You donā€™t love me, you say, and deflate
  50. Iā€™ve really been working on my orgasmic meditation
  51. If a Suitor Should Come
  52. If Vasilyssa Is the Suitor
  53. Iā€™m the grey skirt that trails behind me, ripping open
  54. A girl brings me home to nothing
  55. 2:00 on a Thursday
  56. Somebody is singing
  57. So long my neck coils tight
  58. Vasya/Venus/Violet/Violent
  59. Received
  60. Adaptation is a kind of trauma
  61. By water
  62. X
  63. Drunk, one sneaker over the other
  64. I was a warm live thing
  65. Notes
  66. Acknowledgments
  67. Funder Acknowledgments
  68. The Publisherā€™s Circle of Coffee House Press