Book
The Möbius strip club of grief
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Publication Information
Portland, Oregon ; Brooklyn, New York : Tin House Books, 2018.
Physical Description
104 pages ; 22 cm
Uniform Title
Summary
The Möbius Strip Club of Grief is a collection of poems that take place in a burlesque purgatory where the living pay--dearly, with both money and conscience--to watch the dead perform scandalous acts otherwise unseen: "$20 for five minutes. I'll hold your hand in my own," one ghost says. "I'll tell you you were good to me." Like Dante before her, Stone positions herself as the living poet passing through and observing the land of the dead. She imagines a feminist Limbo where women run the show and create a space to navigate the difficulties endured in life. With a nod to her grandmother Ruth Stone's poem "The Mobius Strip of Grief," Stone creates a labyrinthine underworld as a way to confront and investigate complicated family relationships in the hopes of breaking the never-ending cycle of grief. --Publisher.
Contents
- [Odin plucked out his eye in exchange for a drink]
- Introduction
- Medieval
- Last words
- Lap dance
- A brief topography of the MSCOG
- The murder
- Client
- Mama-san
- Hunter
- All the single mothers
- Honeybee
- Emily Dickinson
- Math
- I am unfaithful to you with my genius
- Making applesauce with my dead grandmother
- How not
- Interior design
- Flight
- The reading
- Self-destruction sequence
- Stenographer
- Elegy with a swear word
- Cliff elegy
- The fates
- Dear sister
- The gang elegy
- Blue jays
- Ones who got away with it
- Letter to a letter to the editors
- The green word
- Migration
- Retreating knights and riderless horses, or Poem with another poem halfway through it
- The fall
- The woman downstairs
- The walking dead
- The lit club slaughter
- In the champagne room with Grandma
- Elegy with clothes
- I'll be happy
- Historic flaws
- The dark ages, revisited.