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    i built a boat with all the towels in your closet (and will let you drown)
    i built a boat with all the towels in your closet (and will let you drown)
    i built a boat with all the towels in your closet (and will let you drown)
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    i built a boat with all the towels in your closet (and will let you drown)

    By Leia Penina Wilson

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Hen Press
    Release dateOct 7, 2014
    ISBN9781597098205
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      i built a boat with all the towels in your closet (and will let you drown) - Leia Penina Wilson

      lazy magnolia let me

      i am looking for something to keep me warm in the winter / when the sky lets loose snow and all its other feelings

      i have found a city. a solid hydrodynamic sphere / with mailboxes and daylight and stampedes of regular people who want to be in love.

      purple / cerulean / sapphire. people who want to be in love only for a little while in order to experience vectors—and mapping—the transfer

      unique bacteria from one human hand to another human hand: to practice thunder and length and echo— echo: the ability to capture a person

      echo touch—a photographic memory: fluttering birds thirst to get away undigested and almost intact.

      i have learned to synthesize it and

      i am standing on my feet

      and my feet are pressing against the concrete

      how else am i to acquire resistance.

      all women

      should learn how to stand straight          they can understand: vicious          aftermath

      and remain: upright appropriately naked legs parted

               or apart symmetrically faithful to subtle violence which is still violence

      but slower slower.

      i wonder what this has turned me into:

      always on the look-out for dangerous sudden things and never remembering why it must be

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