Gin & Bleach (Linda Bruckheimer Kentucky Literature)
Description
"My Reptile"
Little frill d lizard
with your big mouth
and your clutch of egg.
Pure urge iguana
--I wanna wanna
wanna--heavy pet
in a moist habitat.
Your dewlap licks
down my spine;
your creep yearns,
yearns your crawl,
like a small machine
that you rev and
rev and rev until
the engine floods.
Gin and bleach: two clear liquids aiming for purity, bordering the toxic. Catherine Wing's poems are soaked in her cocktail, mixing doubt, loneliness, rough elbows, and razor focus. It riddles, aiming askew for a straight answer: how do we make our way through this world?
Praise for Gin & Bleach (Linda Bruckheimer Kentucky Literature)
"Wittily rhymed and bloodily vivid, Wing’s poems of romance and damage show the poet seeking something to 'overwhelm me, a love-in-the-mist sort of time.'"
Publishers Weekly
Catherine Wing’s Gin & Bleach aims to burn us clear (as only corrosives like gin and bleach can do) to a better understanding of our place in the world.”
Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal Pre-Pub Alert