Luxury, Blue Lace

Name: Luxury, Blue Lace
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: S. Brook Corfman
ISBN: 9781938769498

Author: S. Brook Corfman

Narrator: S. Brook Corfman

Unabridged: 1 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 03/15/2019

Categories: Fiction, Poetry, Lgbtq+, American Poetry

Synopsis

Often, the fact of being an individual can seem wildly at odds with the experience of containing multitudes. In Luxury, Blue Lace, S. Brook Corfman takes the reader through this complicated experience of selfhood and its multitudes, exploring the many overlapping identities a single person can contain. Corfman’s poems conjure a host of identities and selves both living and dead, gesturing towards the complex way memory and loss can inhabit us. Formed by experience, history, and the strictures of gender, the poems dwell on the challenges of fully knowing and understanding the diverse parts of a subject. While they seek out a full form for the individual, they also relish the complex multiplicity of the identities that arise through self-exploration and self-knowledge. Luxury, Blue Lace was the winner of the Autumn House Rising Writer Prize in 2018.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kristen on March 27, 2019

Luxury, Blue Lace is a short collection of poems that tell a bigger story. Using many different poetic forms, Corfman delves into an exploration of self, of childhood and family, of what's wrong and what's not. I'm not a big poetry fan; in fact, I'm pretty sure this is my first book of poetry that wa......more

Goodreads review by E on July 01, 2024

I heard wonderful things about this book, so I was eager to read it. I very much wanted to love this, but I didn’t…even giving it three stars feels like rounding up. The good: there were aspects of the “story” arc in this collection that were intriguing. Corfman begins some interesting conversations......more

Goodreads review by Alyse on January 01, 2019

Corfman's debut poetry collection, winner of the 2018 Rising Writer Prize, is a lyric examination of how family and the world exert life-altering changes on a body in flux (as well as how those changes are negotiated and resisted). Among these poems, sectioned in nonlinear narratives that delve into......more

Goodreads review by Dev on January 31, 2020

It’s not that the poetry was bad. I’m sure for people who enjoy poetry, it was just fine. I just didn’t connect to it. It didn’t make me feel anything.......more