- 64 pages
- English
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All the Gold Hurts My Mouth
About this book
Winner, 2017 ReLit Award
Katherine Leyton's fresh and vibrant debut collection takes on the sexual politics of the twenty-first century, boldly holding up a mirror to the male gaze and interrogating the nature of images and illusions.
Confronting the forces of mass communication — whether television, movies, or the Internet — Leyton explores the subtle effects of the media on our perceptions and interactions, including the pain of alienation and the threat of violence simmering just below the surface.
And yet, for all its unflinching and raw lyricism, the poetry of All the Gold Hurts My Mouth is warm and searching, full of humour and hope. Engaging her readers with lush vocabulary and spare, tightly controlled forms, Leyton's poems become a rich quest for identity, authenticity, and nature uncorrupted. Reaching gloriously from isolation and pain to connection with love, Leyton channels the wit of feminists past to create a manifesto for our time, an affirmation of what might be possible.
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RICHARD GERE’S GRAND PIANO
Here. This is it:
you’re a waitress.
You bring people French toast
and bacon. You can’t pay the Hydro bill.
I used to think of you as somebody
grand, like one of those pianos Edward
fucked Vivian on in Pretty Woman.
Maybe you are.
Maybe your greatest talent
is gleaming in empty foyers.
I AM RIDING TOWARD AN APOCALYPSE — I THINK IT’S MINE.
Watch me on my bike.
On Facebook.
On Instagram.
Watch the sun beat through a lawn tree.
I want to go to sleep there and burn
until it is quiet through me like woods,
but even the woods are in perfect rows,
planted by a man in boots,
his back trembling.
I saw him in a documentary.
I call these thoughts death,
but my death is no longer original;
I saw it in a documentary.
You already said that.
ADVERTISEMENTS
TV shows imagine God is listening.
They signal this with synthesized violins.
My idea of the idea of God
is a good ol’ boy
in a cardigan, His hands
resting snugly in pockets,
winking at the television,
asking me what I’m selling.
I’m not so sure. We watch a girl
at The Gap fold a sweater. I cup a breast,
measure my waist, and ask God
if my sanity is that sweater, collapsed
in a box with a ribbon around it.
Ahhh, He gasps, the girls in their Revlon!
and starts to boogie to the jingle
like a new man.
SEARCH
Type in girls
and Google pulls up its skirt:
thumbnail upon thumbnail of cunt
dildo in wet cunt
cellphone in wet cunt
zucchini in wet cunt
Colin Farrell in wet cunt
some kind of mythical creature in wet cunt
big cunt
bare cunt
French cunt
German cunt
vintage cunt
cunt new and improved
cunt like you’ve never seen before
cunt on the beach
cunt in the forest
cunt on the rocky ...
Table of contents
- Richard Gere’s Grand Piano
- Notes
- Acknowledgements