Mud in Our Mouths Poems
by [Flynn-Goodlett, Luiza]
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An award-winning poet writing through violence, solace, and hope
Luiza Flynn-Goodlett's Mud in Our Mouths illuminates how we are all enmeshed in a web of violence and love. As the speaker of the collection drives cross-country to visit her family of origin in Tennessee, she reckons with the tensions between her current and past selves and the many ways violence--interpersonal, societal, and environmental--has shaped her life. She struggles to find meaning, questioning the ethics of locating faith in a natural world she is unintentionally destroying, and grapples with her complicity in systems of power and oppression as a white Southern woman. Ultimately, she rejects the idea of genetic family as a place of solace; instead, she cleaves to the liberation and joy of connections forged outside those strictures, where intimacy is freely chosen rather than preordained.
Product Details
- Curbstone Books 2 Brand
- Mar 15, 2025 Pub Date:
- 9780810148338 ISBN-13:
- 0810148331 ISBN-10:
- 88.0 pages Paperback
- English Language
- 9 in * 0.7 in * 6 in Dimensions:
- 0 lb Weight:
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