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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
E. Kristin Anderson is a poet, Starbucks connoisseur, and glitter enthusiast living in Austin, Texas. She is the editor of Come as You Are, an anthology of writing on 90s pop culture (Anomalous Press), and Hysteria: Writing the female body (Sable Books, forthcoming). Kristin is the author of eight chapbooks of poetry including A Guide for the Practical Abductee (Red Bird Chapbooks), Pray, Pray, Pray: Poems I wrote to Prince in the middle of the night (Porkbelly Press), Fire in the Sky (Grey Book Press), We’re Doing Witchcraft (Hermeneutic Chaos Press), and 17 seventeen XVII (Grey Book Press). Kristin is an assistant poetry editor at The Boiler and a slush reader at Sugared Water. Once upon a time she worked nights at The New Yorker.
Also by E. Kristin Anderson:
Fire in the Sky
She Witnesses: Found Poems
17 Days
Pray Pray Pray: Poems I wrote to Prince in the middle of the night
A Guide for the Practical Abductee
A Jab of Deep Urgency
Previously in Glass: A Journal of Poetry:
This Is How I Am A Monster
Raiding
The Worn Places Gone
In spite of myself I wondered
at the closed door, modest days
in the evening cool almost out here.
That wink of long summer sat a mile long in this
spiderweb snarl — a dull quicksilver telling stories
about fresh sapphire, a real Prince, all heart.
I opened the door, the smell heavy,
a little red smile underneath.
Even now,
I'm not sure what a vision was, that moment
torn from summer through the yellowed sidewalk.
And why not? I could pull and burn for years,
turn on the radio, catch singing, wake up.
I've been writing a series of erasures using Stephen King novels as source text — specifically novels that have a woman's name as a title. In doing this I've been exploring how women and femmes interact with their environments and with themselves. Christine is a book about a car that hates women. Like, really hates women. And the language men use to describe their cars is often female. Given the current political climate as well as recent personal traumas, I found myself quite raw as I was working on Christine. There was a lot of language here to examine, and with each of these erasures I hope to capture some personal or cultural truth, however vulgar or frightening.
This is an erasure poem. Source: King, Stephen. Christine. New York: Signet, 1983. 31-33 Print.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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