Description
Ringer approaches womanhood from two directions: an examination of ways that women's identities are tied to domestic spaces, like homes, cars, grocery stores, and daycare centers; and a consideration of physical, sexual, and political violence against women, both historically and in the present day. Lehmann's poems look outward, and go beyond cataloguing trespasses against women by biting back against patriarchal systems of oppression, and against perpetrators of violence against women. Many poems in Ringer are ecopoetical, functioning in a "junk" or "sad" pastoral mode, inhabiting abandoned, forgotten, and sometimes impoverished landscapes of rural America.
About the Author
Rebecca Lehmann is the author of Between the Crackups, winner of the Crashaw Prize. Her poems have been published in Tin House, The Georgia Review, Ploughshares, Fence, Boston Review, and more. She lives in South Bend, Indiana, where she is an assistant p
Reviews
Rebecca Lehmann's Ringer is a beautiful book. There's something propulsive and yearning and broken with sadness in these poems. And ecstatic. And astonished. ('His eyes / were four dozen Canadian geese lifting off a late summer river, all at once.' God I love that!) And loving. And there is something that might put its foot up your ass. All made of a gorgeous racket that will probably make you gasp. By which I mean: be in the world anew. As poetry, if we're lucky, sometimes helps us to be." - Ross Gay
"What a great title! It's perfectly true-the whole book rings with surprising images and zingy word-choices, all dedicated to presenting the most mundane things in their truly astonishing particularity. Sharply attuned to issues relating to women-and the ways they've intensified in the current political climate-the work speaks with a fierce and necessary determination infused with an energy not devoid of hope." - Cole Swensen
Book Information
ISBN 9780822965954
Author Rebecca Lehmann
Format Paperback
Page Count 70
Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press
About the Author
Rebecca Lehmann is the author of Between the Crackups, winner of the Crashaw Prize. Her poems have been published in Tin House, The Georgia Review, Ploughshares, Fence, Boston Review, and more. She lives in South Bend, Indiana, where she is an assistant p
Reviews
Rebecca Lehmann's Ringer is a beautiful book. There's something propulsive and yearning and broken with sadness in these poems. And ecstatic. And astonished. ('His eyes / were four dozen Canadian geese lifting off a late summer river, all at once.' God I love that!) And loving. And there is something that might put its foot up your ass. All made of a gorgeous racket that will probably make you gasp. By which I mean: be in the world anew. As poetry, if we're lucky, sometimes helps us to be." - Ross Gay
"What a great title! It's perfectly true-the whole book rings with surprising images and zingy word-choices, all dedicated to presenting the most mundane things in their truly astonishing particularity. Sharply attuned to issues relating to women-and the ways they've intensified in the current political climate-the work speaks with a fierce and necessary determination infused with an energy not devoid of hope." - Cole Swensen
Book Information
ISBN 9780822965954
Author Rebecca Lehmann
Format Paperback
Page Count 70
Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press
