The End of Pink (American Poets Continuum)

Synopsis

Winner Of The 2015 James Laughlin Award, Kathryn Nuernberger's The End Of Pink Is Populated By Strange Characters-bat Boy, Automatons, Taxidermied Mermaids, Snake Oil Salesmen, And Benjamin Franklin-all From The Annals Of Science And Pseudoscience. Equal Parts Fact And Folklore, These Poems Look To The Marvelous And The Weird For A Way To Understand Childbirth, Parenthood, Sickness, Death, And-of Course-joy. Finding Myself In A Mesmeric Orientation, Before Me Appeared Benjamin Franklin, Who Magnetized His French Paramours At Dinner Parties As An Amusing Diversion From His Most Serious Studies Of Electricity And The Ethereal Fire. I Like Thinking About How He Would Have Stood On Tiptoe To Kiss Their Buzzing Lips And Everyone Would Gasp And Clap For The Blue Spark Between Them. I Believe In An Honest And Forthright Manner, A Democracy Of Plain Speech, So I Have To Find A Way To Explain I Don't Care To Have Sex Anymore. Kathryn Nuernberger Has Lived In Various Corners Of Missouri, Louisiana, Ohio, And Montana. Her First Book, Rag & Bone (elixir Press, 2011), Was A Love Letter To Backwoods Junk Collectors And All Of The Abandoned Cabins In The Foothills To The Ozark Mountains. An Unapologetic Dilettante, She Has Received Research Fellowships From The American Antiquarian Society And The Bakken Museum Of Electricity In Life To Research Aspects Of The History Of Science And Medicine. She Currently Lives In Columbia, Missouri, Teaches At The University Of Central Missouri, And Serves As The Director Of Pleiades Press-- The Symbolical Heal As When Was The Last Time? -- More Experiments With The Mysterious Property Of Animal Magnetism -- Zoontological Sublime -- About Derrida, If You're Into That -- Bat Boy Washed Up On Shore -- Benjamin Harding To Prospective Investors On The Refining Effects Of Static Electricity And Volcanic Action In The Ultimate Production Of Both Atomic (or Molecular) And Free Pure Metallic Gold -- Testimonial -- P.t.barnum's Fiji Mermaid Exhibition As I Was Not The Girl I Think I Was -- I Concede The Point, I Concede The Point, I Concede The Point -- Wonders And Mysteries Of Animal Magnetism Displayed As What I Want Was -- Rituals Of The Bacabs As The Strange Case Of Kate Abbott -- Birds Of Ohio -- Reading Drops Of Water: Showing The Mysteries Of The Visible World As Love Poem -- The Book Of Knowledge, The Experienced Ferrier As The Best Of All Possible Worlds -- The End Of Pink -- The Saint Girl's Sweetest Tortures -- The Saint Girl Died And Went To Heaven And That Was One Problem After Another -- Ways In Which The Saint Girl Is And Is Not Me; Also, So What If She Is And What If She Isn't -- The Saint Girl Discovers An Orgasmitron -- The Saint Girl Tries To Do The Right Thing -- The Saint Girl's Isochronal Error -- The Saint Girl Takes In Strays -- The Saint Girl Opens The Window And Closes It As She Pleases -- The Nimbuses Of Devils -- Or Perhaps Not -- My First Peacock -- Property Lines -- When Cortez Came -- My Peacock Among The Phantasmagoria -- Whatever You Need -- Little Brown Jug, Look On The Bright Side -- Toad -- My Peacock's Daguerreotype -- Peter, Raised By Wolves -- Reň Descartes And The Clockwork Girl -- Peacock And Sister -- Little Lesson On How To Be. By Kathryn Nuernberger.