Overview
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.
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Author: Luiza Flynn-Goodlett
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Imprint: Northwestern University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.113kg
ISBN: 9780810148338
ISBN 10: 0810148331
Pages: 88
Publication Date: 31 March 2025
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments One To My Neighbor as He Downs Trees I Ask the Garden for Comfort Beefsteak Begonia The Most Glorious Birds Perseids Season Stay Careworn Good Work The Murky Slipper In Oakland Shadow Boxer Certainties Highway Thunderstorms over El Rey Court, Santa Fe, NM Tornado Alley Private Property The Memory of Pain Not That Again Apocalypse For the Dying Chick outside Whole Foods, Albuquerque, NM Passive Ideation Forgetting Siblings Long Distance Object Permanence For Queen Anne's Lace, Cairo, IL Auto-response re: Pastoral Dangers Two Our Time After the Mastectomy, Union City, TN Grandmother's Body Family Tree In the Produce Section of Super Walmart, Union City, TN It's Easier These Days Dollies For a Dildo in the Grass at Veterans Park, Union City, TN Last Gasp Scab Orphans Clarksville Elegy Evidence Locker The Christmas Orange Likeness What's Called Love, Nashville, TN Our Parents' Death Crime Scene To the Page Aubade for Every Broken Thing, Union City, TN Orchids Extinct Clouds Overwater Finding the Falls Happiness In Security A Poem in Which the Family Is Not a Tragedy, Union City, TN Confessional Ghost Story Against the Season Choosing a Transitional Object The Problem with Beauty Columbarium The Lipstick Lounge To My Mother's Ex-Husband Genealogy Out of the Woods Untitled At Love's Truck Stop, Laramie, WY Thank Yous
Reviews
""Mud in Our Mouths elegiacally renders a queer experience of small-town America with care for her subjects, attention to the socioeconomic and sociocultural factors at work, and a precision of language and lineation. The poems consider the ephemeral: places and people once known, the people one used to be."" --Emilia Phillips, author of Nonbinary Bird of Paradise
Author Information
Luiza Flynn-Goodlett is the author of Look Alive, which was awarded the 2 9 Cowles Poetry Book Prize, as well as numerous chapbooks, most recently Familiar. Her poetry can be found in Fugue, Five Points, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. She serves as assistant poetry editor for the Whiting Award-winning LGBTQIA2S literary journal and press Foglifter.
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