Autobiography of a Wound: Poems (Pitt Poetry)

by Brynne Rebele-Henry

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In ancient fertility carvings, artists would drill holes into the woman’s body to signify penetrability, which is the basis of Autobiography of a Wound: allowing those wounds and puncture marks to speak through the fertility figures. The wounds are chronicled through letters and poems addressed to F (F stands for the fertility carvings themselves, which are being addressed as one unified deity), and A (Aphrodite, who is being referenced as a general deity of womanhood, a figurine that reappears throughout the poems, and a symbol that is referenced or portrayed in almost every fertility figurine or carving). Autobiography of a Wound reconstructs the narrative surrounding female pathos and the idea of the hysteric girl.
  • ISBN10 0822965674
  • ISBN13 9780822965671
  • Publish Date 4 September 2018
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 96
  • Language English