A women /

"Vanessa Roveto's debut collection, Bodys, is a work of stunning strangeness, force and audacity, generated by--and degenerating towards--the unanswerable question at the heart of poetic speech: What does it mean to be "a person"? A dizzying hybrid of poetry and prose, post-human...

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Main Author: Roveto, Vanessa (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2020]
Series:Kuhl House poets.
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