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WINNER, 2020 Whiting Award in Poetry!
Diannely Antigua's debut collection Ugly Music is a cacophonous symphony of reality, dream, trauma, and obsession. It reaches into the corners of love and loss where survival and surrender are blurred. The poems span a traumatic early childhood, a religious adolescence, and later a womanhood that grapples with learning how to create an identity informed by, yet in spite of, those challenges. What follows is an exquisitely vulgar voice, unafraid to draw attention to the distasteful, to speak a truth created by a collage of song and confession, diary and praise. It is an account of observation and dissociation, the danger of simultaneously being inside and outside the experiences that mold a life. Ugly Music emerges as a story of witness, a realization that even the strangest things exist on earth and deserve to live.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781936919642 |
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Publisher: | YesYes Books |
Publication date: | 05/15/2019 |
Pages: | 99 |
Sales rank: | 845,543 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.10(d) |
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Table of Contents
Self-Portrait as Nostalgia 1
Verse
Re-Education 5
Day of Pentecost 6
Ars Poetica 8
Praise to the Boys 9
Diary Entry #9: Undoing 10
Beauty Lesson 11
Golden Shovel with Solstice 13
Self-Portrait, 1996 15
Diary Entry #4: Atonement 16
Before Diagnosis 17
Diary Entry #11: Still Life with Christmas 18
Diary Entry #4: Ghazal 19
Chorus
First Ode 21
Misconception 22
In the Country Where My Parents Met in a Taxicab 24
Picked 25
Separate 27
Diary Entry #16: About Using My Body 28
In Suburbia 29
Diary Entry #1: Testimony 30
Some Notes on Love 31
Afterward 32
Diary Entry #20: Prognosis 33
Verse
Strawberry Moon 35
Ode to a Lapkin 37
Diary Entry #8: S elf-Improvement 39
Diary Entry #16: Dysmorphia 40
Brujena 41
Suggested Sad Songs for Broken Hearts 42
Trigger Points 43
There Is Nothing 44
Chorus
Equinox 47
It's So Pretty to Drunk Cry on a Subway Platform 48
Diary Entry #24: Bargaining 49
Post-Concussion 50
Of Highrise 88 51
Diary Entry #14: Navigating 52
The One with the Cat and the Hospital 54
Bridge
Songs of Babylon 57
Alabama 58
Ode to First Kiss 60
Portrait of El Jefe 62
Immigration Story 64
Modern Elegy 66
Something Like a Psalm 67
Chorus
After Reading Sharon Olds 69
Something Dies in Me Every Month 71
Diary Entry #22: Vows 72
When Booty Call Turns into Love 73
Mistakes 74
Ode That Doesn't Pass the Bechdel Test 76
Aubade with Solar Eclipse 77
Frying Eggs on the Sidewalk Was the First Lie 78
Outro
Diary Entry #1: Revisitation 81
How I Survived: An Erasure 82
Diary Entry #30: Regression 84
Diary Entry #17: Ibiza 85
When I Try to Explain 86
Variations on a Theme 88
Everything's Been Said 91
Notes 95
Acknowledgments 97