Veil and BurnConcerned with physical experience, pain, and disability, Veil and Burn illuminates an intense desire to feel through the Other, embrace it, become it, and in the transformation, to understand the suffering body. In poems about animals, artifacts, and monsters, Lambeth displays a fascination for all bodies while exploring their pain, common fate, alienation, and abilities. Hovering between poem and prose fragment, between the self and fellow creatures, Laurie Clements Lambeth celebrates physical sensation, imbuing it with lyric shape, however broken, however imprisoned the shape may be. |
Contents
Coming Down | 1 |
Symptoms | 3 |
The Spaces Between | 4 |
In a Field Distractions Rise | 7 |
Riches | 9 |
Seizure or Seduction of Persephone | 13 |
Large Loop Excision of the Temporal Zone | 16 |
Onion | 20 |
Inheritance | 42 |
Hypoethesia | 44 |
On My Husbands Birthday I Read Obituaries | 46 |
Reluctant Pegasus | 47 |
Wrong Turn Near Pecos | 63 |
Retrobulbar | 66 |
The Merle | 68 |
Undressing the Tree | 69 |
Cutting Distance | 21 |
After Eight Years | 24 |
In Japan Woman Can Doze with Man Pillow | 26 |
Work | 27 |
Into Wind | 29 |
Ode to the Upper Lip | 31 |
Frankensteins Lesions | 33 |
Alfred Hitchcock Meets the Blob | 37 |
Dog on Her Side PostAmputation | 40 |
The Shaking | 70 |
Heron | 71 |
Eating the Night | 72 |
Nicholas Ray Directs a Poem | 73 |
Back Lot Field Notes | 76 |
Washing Up | 78 |
Notes | 81 |
back cover | 91 |
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