Veil and Burn

by Lambeth, Laurie Clements

• ISBN13: 9780252032769
• ISBN10: 0252032764
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-25
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

Concerned with physical experience, pain, and disability,Veil and Burnilluminates an intense desire to feel through the Other, embrace it, become it, and in the transformation, to understand the suffering body. In poems about animals, artifacts, and monsters, Lambeth displays a fascination for all bodies while exploring their pain, common fate, alienation, and abilities. Hovering between poem and prose fragment, between the self and fellow creatures, Laurie Clements Lambeth celebrates physical sensation, imbuing it with lyric shape, however broken, however imprisoned the shape may be.

Author Biography

Laurie Clements Lambeth lives in Houston with her husband and dog. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Indiana Review, Mid-American Review, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere.

Table of Contents

Coming Down	p. 1
Symptoms	p. 3
The Spaces Between	p. 4
[Mesh Fragment]	p. 6
In a Field Distractions Rise	p. 7
[Fragment Behind the Eyelid]	p. 8
Riches	p. 9
[Practice Fragment]	p. 12
Seizure, or Seduction of Persephone	p. 13
[Needle Fragment]	p. 15
Large Loop Excision of the Temporal Zone	p. 16
[Halo Fragment]	p. 19
Onion	p. 20
Cutting Distance	p. 21
[Frame Fragment]	p. 23
After Eight Years	p. 24
In Japan, Woman Can Doze with Man Pillow	p. 26
Work	p. 27
[Gingham Fragment]	p. 28
Into Wind	p. 29
Ode to the Upper Lip	p. 31
Case History: Frankenstein's Lesions	p. 33
Alfred Hitchcock Meets The Blob	p. 37
[Gauze Fragment]	p. 39
After Cancer: Dog on Her Side, Post-Amputation	p. 40
Inheritance	p. 42
Hypoesthesia	p. 44
On My Husband's Birthday I Read Obituaries	p. 46
Reluctant Pegasus
Saddle	p. 47
Membrane	p. 49
At the Wild Horse Sanctuary	p. 50
In Praise of Proud Flesh	p. 51
Reluctant Pegasus	p. 52
[Preserved Fragment]	p. 54
Pegasus, a Ghost	p. 55
To the Gray I Can No Longer Ride	p. 57
What Holds	p. 58
Dressage, or the Attempt at Training the Course of Illness	p. 60
[Mosaic Fragment]	p. 62
Wrong Turn Near Pecos	p. 63
[Chipped Fragment]	p. 65
Retrobulbar	p. 66
[Fragment Dissected and Sewn]	p. 67
The Merle	p. 68
Undressing the Tree	p. 69
The Shaking	p. 70
Heron	p. 71
Eating the Night	p. 72
Nicholas Ray Directs a Poem	p. 73
[Brain Fragment (as Seen on a Monitor)]	p. 75
Back Lot Field Notes	p. 76
Washing Up	p. 78
Notes	p. 81
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