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Desire Museum
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Desire Museum is perfect for readers interested in contemporary poetry that delves into complex themes of identity, desire, and social issues. It will especially appeal to those drawn to explorations of female experience, LGBTQ+ perspectives, and intersections of nature and culture.
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Winner of the 2024 LAMBDA Literary Award for Outstanding Bisexual Poetry
Consumed with the accumulation of lost time and unfulfilled longing, Desire Museum by Danielle Cadena Deulen is an intricate exploration of things left unfinished or unsatisfied.
Divided into four sections and shaped by female-identified embodiment, Desire Museum touches on lost love and friendship, climate crisis, lesbian relationships, and the imprisonment of children at the U.S.-Mexico border. These poems trace the pleasures and pitfalls of sex, the anxieties of motherhood, and the ramifications of interpersonal, sociopolitical, and environmental trauma in women's lives. In these pages, Deulen holds up a candle to desire itself, questioning what it means to recognize and embrace one's desires, or what it might mean to let them go.
In conversation with Hopkins, Keats, Crane, and Lorca, Deulen seamlessly weaves memories into dreamscapes and blurs the human and natural worlds. With love, wonder, grief, and awe, Desire Museum shows us that to live alongside desire is to refuse to be contained: "I refuse meaning [ ] the first sunrise reiterates the last."
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Desire Museum
Winner of the 2024 LAMBDA Literary Award for Outstanding Bisexual Poetry Consumed with the accumulation of lost time and unfulfilled longing, Desire Museum by Danielle Cadena Deulen is an intricate exploration of things left unfinished or unsatisfied. Divided into four sections and shaped by female-identified embodiment, Desire Museum touches on lost love and friendship, climate crisis, lesbian relationships, and the...PaperbackSold Out
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Critics praise Desire Museum for its rich language, inventive mythologies, and emotional depth. Carmen Giménez highlights its "small windows through which the fresh breath of self-knowledge blows," celebrating Deulen's "deft curation" of themes related to dissolution and ardour. Bruce Snider admires the collection's breadth, noting its skillful engagement with classical mythology, physics, and vivid imagery of beasts and voices from great poets. The poems are described as smart, restless, and intoxicating, adeptly transforming hunger and heartbreak into art and memory.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781960145000
Publisher: BOA Editions, Limited
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 23 November 2023
Country: United States
Imprint: BOA Editions, Limited
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 228.0mm
Height: 177.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 104
About the Author
Danielle Cadena Deulen is a writer, professor, and podcaster. Originally from the Northwest, she now lives in Atlanta where she teaches for the graduate creative writing program at Georgia State University. Her previous collections includeOur Emotions Get Carried Away Beyond Us, winner of the Barrow Street Book Contest andLovely Asunder, which won the Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize and the Utah Book Award. Her memoir,The Riots, won the AWP Prize in Creative Nonfiction and the GLCA New Writers Award. She has been the recipient of an Oregon Literary Fellowship, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and a Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Her poems and essays have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including ThePushcart PrizeXLVI,Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, andPoets.org. She is the host of "Lit from the Basement," a literary podcast and radio show.
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