I Built a Boat with All the Towels in Your Closet (and Will Let You Drown)

Leia Penina Wilson's i built a boat with all the towels in your closet (and will let you drown) is at once a love ballad and a warning. These poems are--at their simplest--about relationships, sex, love, creatures, different kinds (and degrees) of violence, and--at their most complex--about the limits of the imagination, of language, and about the power the imagination has over the body. These poems confront the shifty line between human and animal, and urge the question: at what cost the body. Wilson's animal-human doesn't intend to answer that question; instead, she lunges towards it and tears it up and begins again, and again, and again.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Published: 10/07/2014
ISBN: 9781597095396
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.30h x 6.90w x 0.40d

Review Citations: Booklist 10/15/2014 pg. 12