The Resurrection Trade

by Miller, Leslie Adrienne

• ISBN13: 9781555974633
• ISBN10: 1555974635
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-06
• Publisher: Graywolf Press

Summary

Poet Leslie Adrienne Miller's brilliant and provocative exploration of anatomical texts and historical assumptions about the body Whoever they were, they're still with us, posing demurely in suits of blood and muscle, the bruised shadows of what skin they do have . . . from "Gautier d'Agoty's EcorchEs" "The resurrection trade," the business of trafficking in corpses, is an old trade, one that makes possible the art of anatomy and, as poet Leslie Adrienne Miller discovers, the art of her own book. Miller delves into the mysteries of early anatomical studies and medical illustrations and finds there stories of women's livessometimes tragic, sometimes comicas exposed as the drawings themselves. These meticulously researched and rendered poems become powerful testimonies to women's bodies objectified and misunderstood throughout history. Miller's sensuous and harrowing fifth collection brings a new truth to what she calls "the strange collusion of imaginary science and real art."

Author Biography

Leslie Adrienne Miller is the author of four previous collections of poetry, including Eat Quite Everything You See. She teaches at the University of Saint Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Table of Contents

Etude	p. 3
Gautier D'Agoty's ecorches	p. 4
Rough music, Edinburgh, 1829	p. 6
Mother and son	p. 8
Wandering uterus	p. 10
To make a wound	p. 12
The death of irony	p. 14
Speaking of the devil	p. 16
Mimosa	p. 17
Plastic Cultura, Andalucia	p. 19
Map of the interior	p. 21
On the vulva	p. 22
Figure 99	p. 24
Recipe for couples therapy	p. 25
Bridge club	p. 27
Venus Endormi	p. 29
Subtitles	p. 30
Shopping for the Queen of England	p. 31
The dead send their gardener	p. 33
The resurrection trade	p. 34
Torso of a woman gone with child, 1774	p. 40
Madame du Coudray's woman machine, 1756	p. 41
Easter flood	p. 43
"The flayed angel"	p. 45
Cherries	p. 47
Written on the spine	p. 49
Up north	p. 51
Sonnet on the interval during which the sun is below the horizon at an angle less than any of several standard angular distances	p. 53
Hydrologic sonnet	p. 54
Old radio	p. 55
Mirabilia, 1726	p. 57
Pregnant in Florence	p. 59
Mantra of the bath	p. 60
Anamnesis, 1721-1740	p. 62
Motherhood as place	p. 64
Weaning	p. 66
Aim	p. 71
The harriers	p. 72
Anatomy at the dinner table	p. 74
Anatomy of the unsought finding	p. 75
Parous in Paris	p. 77
Homage to a testore bass	p. 78
Bridal wear	p. 83
Outliving the lyric moment	p. 85
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