Blooming Fiascoes: Poems

by Ellen Hagan

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Blooming Fiascoes is a collective of verse that deconstructs identity. We are beautiful and monstrous. We live in a beautiful and monstrous world. Ellen Hagan poetically mirrors these metaphoric adversaries, drawing on her experiences as a woman, an artist, a mother, a transplanted southerner, and above all, a human being. She plumbs origins in history, body, and living to question how we reckon our whole selves in the catacombs of a world gone mad:

We mourn, we bless, / we blow, we wail, we / wind-down, we sip, / we spin, we blind, we / bend, bow & hem. We...

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  • ISBN13 9780810143142
  • Publish Date 28 February 2021
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Northwestern University Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 80
  • Language English