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What Flies Want: Poems

Name: What Flies Want: Poems
Brand: University of Iowa Press
SKU: 9781609388430
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Contributors:

Emily PÃ©rez

Publisher:

University of Iowa Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Poetry

Book Subcategory:

American, Women Authors

Series:

Iowa Poetry Prize

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Release Date:

2022-05-11

ISBN 13:

9781609388430

Weight:

0.25 lbs

Size:

7.60 x 5.90 x 0.30 inches

Pages:

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Colorado Book Award - poetry finalist

In What Flies Want, disaster looms in domesticity: a family grapples with its members' mental health, a marriage falters, and a child experiments with self-harm. With its backdrop of school lockdown drills, #MeToo, and increasing political polarization, the collection asks how these private and public tensions are interconnected.

The speaker, who grew up in a bicultural family on the U.S./Mexico border, learns she must play a role in a culture that prizes whiteness, patriarchy, and chauvinism. As an adult she oscillates between performed confidence and obedience. As a wife, she bristles against the expectations of emotional labor. As a mother, she attempts to direct her white male children away from the toxic power they are positioned to inherit, only to find how deeply she is also implicated in these systems. Tangled in a family history of depression, a society fixated on guns, a rocky relationship, and her own desire to ignore and deny the problems she must face, this is a speaker who is by turns defiant, defeated, self-implicating, and hopeful.

About the Author
Emily Pérez is author of House of Sugar, House of Stone and coedited The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. She works as a high school teacher and dean, and lives in Denver, Colorado.

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