I Am in Bed with You (Poetry)

I Am in Bed with You (Poetry)
Emma Barnes
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Paperback
h238 x 150mm - 88pg
11 Mar 2021 NZ
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9781869409388
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I am in bed with you. The room varies. But I' m always on theleft. I am pulling the pieces of myself into myself. In the winterI left myself behind in the 90s. I' m coming back now. You can see the light touching me. I can see layers of tissue finallymaking a body. And once I have a body I have a head. And inmy head are these thoughts. -From ' I am in bed with you' Playful and fluid but completely serious, Emma Barnes' s surreal phantasmagoria I Am in Bed with You leads us through the very personal worlds of sex, gender and the body. Barnes cracks jokes, makes us uncomfortable, shows us a little tenderness, leaves a lot unsaid and does it all with language that provokes and confounds. ' I' m a mentally ill, / married, chronically ill, queer woman with two feet underground' , the author reveals. ' I birth Sigourney Weaver' s android baby' , they tell us next. This collection is personal and fantastical, funny and excruciating. It' s poetry in the process of unravelling most of what you thought you knew.
' I Am in Bed with You signals the arrival of an extraordinary talent. Not only does Emma Barnes have the brainpower to interrogate notions of personal identity and interconnection incisively as we enter the 2020s but the sense of humour to see the comedy in our conundra and the emotional range to grasp the heartbreak in our yearnings, conflicts and confusions. Packed with quotable bons mots, quirky observations, agony aunt tips, enigmas and apophthegms, this is a book that rewards frequent re-reading. ' -- Iain Sharp; ' From the first line of ' This is a creation myth' , this work is stubbornly brave. Barnes stomps with bright boots over the territory of motherhood, womanhood, gender, and - unquestionably and timelessly - Sigourney Weaver. Everything is new and a little bit disgusting. ' -- Sophie van Waardenberg
Emma Barnes studied at the University of Canterbury and lives in Aro Valley, Wellington. Their poetry has been widely published for more than a decade in journals including Landfall, Turbine | Kapohau, Cordite and Best New Zealand Poems. They are currently co-editing with Chris Tse an anthology of LGBTQIA+ and takatapui writing from Aotearoa New Zealand for Auckland University Press.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781869409388
Published: 11 Mar 2021
Published In: New Zealand
Imprint: Auckland University Press
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 238mm
Width: 150mm
Pages: 88

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