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Book

Tantrums in air

Call Number

  • 811 S6282 (CEN)

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Publication Information

[Brooklyn, NY] : The Song Cave, [2025]

Physical Description

128 pages : illustrations; portrait ; 19 cm

Summary

"Emily Skillings's highly anticipated second collection of poems, Tantrums in Air, is a wild romp through verbal reality, marking her as one of contemporary poetry's shining stars of humor, insight, and edge. Skillings writes through various poetic forms, reminding the reader how tenuous the line can be between a poem and, say, an Amazon review of the poet's first book. Featuring a ballet in four acts ("part ghost, part sponge / a lump of pure refusal"), addresses to past loves ("I circle the circle / Of a compact mirror, open"), and an unconventional treatise on education, Tantrums in Air is smart and honest, reinventing both what's possible and what we should expect from poetry."

Contents

  • Rose-crowned night girl
  • Prelude: a lump of pure sound
  • The fool
  • The duke's forest
  • An environmental poem
  • Tenant
  • Reading
  • Electric
  • Screen test
  • Balustrade: a ballet in four acts
  • Tantrums in air
  • Ladies Be your own grave
  • Fantasy
  • Maw
  • Heaven
  • Daphne
  • Gargouillade
  • A potentially good book soaked in offensive perfume
  • Traipse
  • Voicemail from the impaled
  • Globes
  • Idea for the beginning of a novel
  • The bee eater and the chamomile
  • Forgetting something
  • Secret sauce
  • Lavender lake
  • A draped urn
  • Receiver
  • No people in it
  • Emily
  • Turpentine
  • So much so
  • Reverse lullaby
  • A room in dumb Bitchville.

Subjects

Genres

Poetry.