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States of Arousal
About this book
Winner of the 2022 Louise Bogan Award, Sunshine O'Donnell's States of Arousal offers a gripping and relevant poetry collection outlining the modern human experience. Violence and love are evoked in equal measure, making up the foreground of collective tragedies such as American school shootings and the COVID-19 Pandemic. Nostalgia is infused into O'Donnell's imagery, bringing Philadelphia to life as both haunted and beautiful: "For decades I collect/ goodbye letters and try to hide them/ from myself." States of Arousal is a collection that takes on large-scale issues with intimate and vulnerable imagery. The reader is confronted by the brutality of the modern world while simultaneously comforted by the delicate displays of the human spirit.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Lockdown
- North Philly in August
- Sinking
- Show ‘N Tell
- what ache the pistons
- Sudden Realization at the Age of 50 While Being Followed 22 By a Man Who Tells Me Mmmm, You Look Good and is Waiting to Hear Thank You Which I Will Say So as to Avoid Making Him Angry
- 13-Year-Old Girls Impart Their Training After I Share My Sudden Realization
- Attachment
- Placement
- Detachment
- Pronouns
- Screentime
- COMPREHENSION QUIZ: Fun with the News on NPR!
- How Can You Survive The End of the World?
- Duck & Cover
- You Notice Things
- Analog Bulletins From 2002
- State of Being
- in the flesh
- Plato’s Hermaphrodite
- Backcover