Grappling with queerness and trauma from Alberta to Brooklyn, powering through body, sex, and gender to hit free open roadsIn Vulgar Mechanics, K. B. Thors seeks to invent new strategies for survival through the two most basic tools available to the speaker: language and the body. The work begins in collapse, the poems acting as witness to the death of a mother. The speaker documents how, as her mother's physical body disintegrates, hidden knowledge rises to the surface in the form of seismic legacy data. As dark secrets are released, the desire for justice demands improvisation. Moving from the fracked landscapes of the prairies to the steep verticality of New York, this is a collection concerned with hunger, anger, and the shifting fault-lines between play and pain. The poems celebrate the body as a vehicle of excavation and self-determination in a world in which there may be no such a thing as a safe word. Thors pushes against the boundaries of language - the material of sense, meaning - in order to claim a quantum vision of the self, one who transforms trauma into energy through its own multiplicity. The body becomes both ghost and machine, burning the past in its engine to make something beautiful and new, a thunder egg / bucking the fire pit.--$cProvided by publisher.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2019.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C811/.6
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Poems Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781770566194 1552453987
- LCCN
- PR9199.4.B49767
- LCCN Item number
- V85 2019eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- NLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (84 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00240217 (OCoLC)1106019986 (CaOOCEL)480080
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- YDX
Table of Contents
- III 6
- For Mona Nyja and Layla 7
- All You Can Eat 9
- Theres a name for it. 19
- Theres a phrase that fits 20
- Stick around this time. See what happens. No Higher Resolution Available. 24
- Out with it. 28
- Hed go from her bed to mine. 28
- Roads of Alberta 30
- Urban Dictionary 44
- Cologne for gas hands 40. 45
- Did anyone ever tell you youre angry when youre beautiful 64
- Fag 66
- Jock Jams Volume 1 82
- Self- Portrait Skull and Ornament 1964 82
- Paradise Lost 82
- The Broth- ers Karamazov 83
- Celebrity Skin 84
- Stormwarning Chintungo The Story of Someone Else 87
