Cosmic Tantrum: Poems
Autor Sarah Lyn Rogersen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 feb 2025
A debut full-length poetry collection from Sarah Lyn Rogers rewriting girlhood and summoning mischief
Sarah Lyn Rogers’s debut full-length collection is a tragicomic exploration of codependent and transactional relationships: economies of shame, gifts as debts, businesses run like families, and families run like businesses. What transgressions and abuses do we believe are acceptable fees for safety or love, and who upholds these myths? The poems in Cosmic Tantrum examine how our most intimate relationships shape the way we move through the wider world—and what happens when we reject the stories we’ve inherited about our worth.
Sarah Lyn Rogers’s debut full-length collection is a tragicomic exploration of codependent and transactional relationships: economies of shame, gifts as debts, businesses run like families, and families run like businesses. What transgressions and abuses do we believe are acceptable fees for safety or love, and who upholds these myths? The poems in Cosmic Tantrum examine how our most intimate relationships shape the way we move through the wider world—and what happens when we reject the stories we’ve inherited about our worth.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780810147935
ISBN-10: 0810147939
Pagini: 104
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
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ISBN-10: 0810147939
Pagini: 104
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Curbstone Books 2
Notă biografică
SARAH LYN ROGERS is the author of the chapbooks Autocorrect Suggests “Tithe” and Inevitable What. She wrote the Catapult column Internet as Intimacy and has edited award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Cuprins
Dedication
Warm Blanket Tantrum
The Content Is Supposed to Burst from the Contain
Local Beast Time Travels, Body Swaps through Glitch in Matrix
Rage Practice
No One Wants to Volunteer for an Embodiment on Earth Anymore
A Toast to the Dismay of Certain Industries
Cosmic Tantrum
Baby Island
Posture of Dread
What Is the Bird in Charlie Brown’s Name?
“That's all I need—an ordered life”
Cross-Section of the Nervous/Solar System
Local Beast Recently Inhabited Shared Space
Subtweeted Again in the Shared Google Doc
Some Brainwashed Dude on Twitter Insists That to Be Valuable a Woman Must Possess the Mathematically Perfect, Suspiciously Babylike Skull of an Angel
Let’s Practice Kissing, Compare Bra Sizes
Halloween and I’m the Only One in Costume on the Subway
Shut-in Tantrum
Vermin
Despite Many Proclamations, Little Edie Never Leaves Big Edie at Grey Gardens
What a Person Makes You Hold—What You Hold for Someone—Lingers
Please Answer to the Best of Your Ability
Egg Trance
Golden Child Tantrum
To My Teenage Self, Who Always Fell for It
Queen of Wands
Self-Anthropology
Tantrum about My Uterus
Symptoms Depend upon Method and Duration of Exposure
Pot-Bound
Not Everyone Would Sooner Kill You Than Admit You Hurt Their Feelings
Local Beast Withstands Record-Breaking Silent Treatment
Applicant Must Have
Renter
Little Edie’s Memories and Her Flag Dance
Guided Meditation with Mean Voice
Artfully Vague Trance
I Could Signal Dominance in Email Correspondence as Trained but the Concept Is Offensive and I’m Baby
Halloween: “What even are you, anyway?”
The Townsfolk Enact a Strongly Worded Letter
Local Beast, Kind of a Little Bitch Actually
Nothing Trance
Guided Meditation with Inner Mother
The Empress
Autocorrect Suggests “Tithe”
It’s the Local Beast, Charlie Brown
Guided Meditation with Inner Child
Advice from an Upper Grader
Exhibition: What Is It Like to Make Something That Matters?
In Which Music Activates the Ventral Vagal
Guided Meditation with Dead Musician
Ars Poetica with Need and Wild Cats
Acknowledgments
Warm Blanket Tantrum
The Content Is Supposed to Burst from the Contain
Local Beast Time Travels, Body Swaps through Glitch in Matrix
Rage Practice
No One Wants to Volunteer for an Embodiment on Earth Anymore
A Toast to the Dismay of Certain Industries
Cosmic Tantrum
Baby Island
Posture of Dread
What Is the Bird in Charlie Brown’s Name?
“That's all I need—an ordered life”
Cross-Section of the Nervous/Solar System
Local Beast Recently Inhabited Shared Space
Subtweeted Again in the Shared Google Doc
Some Brainwashed Dude on Twitter Insists That to Be Valuable a Woman Must Possess the Mathematically Perfect, Suspiciously Babylike Skull of an Angel
Let’s Practice Kissing, Compare Bra Sizes
Halloween and I’m the Only One in Costume on the Subway
Shut-in Tantrum
Vermin
Despite Many Proclamations, Little Edie Never Leaves Big Edie at Grey Gardens
What a Person Makes You Hold—What You Hold for Someone—Lingers
Please Answer to the Best of Your Ability
Egg Trance
Golden Child Tantrum
To My Teenage Self, Who Always Fell for It
Queen of Wands
Self-Anthropology
Tantrum about My Uterus
Symptoms Depend upon Method and Duration of Exposure
Pot-Bound
Not Everyone Would Sooner Kill You Than Admit You Hurt Their Feelings
Local Beast Withstands Record-Breaking Silent Treatment
Applicant Must Have
Renter
Little Edie’s Memories and Her Flag Dance
Guided Meditation with Mean Voice
Artfully Vague Trance
I Could Signal Dominance in Email Correspondence as Trained but the Concept Is Offensive and I’m Baby
Halloween: “What even are you, anyway?”
The Townsfolk Enact a Strongly Worded Letter
Local Beast, Kind of a Little Bitch Actually
Nothing Trance
Guided Meditation with Inner Mother
The Empress
Autocorrect Suggests “Tithe”
It’s the Local Beast, Charlie Brown
Guided Meditation with Inner Child
Advice from an Upper Grader
Exhibition: What Is It Like to Make Something That Matters?
In Which Music Activates the Ventral Vagal
Guided Meditation with Dead Musician
Ars Poetica with Need and Wild Cats
Acknowledgments
Recenzii
"William Blake taught us that nothing could be scarier than fairy tales for grown-ups. T.S. Eliot taught us that selfhood inheres in the desire for self-erasure. Somewhere in the wild space between these guiding poetics, Sarah Lyn Rogers’s Cosmic Tantrum lays a table for tea."—Rachel Feder, coauthor of Astrolit: A Bibliophile's Guide to the Stars
"As its title suggests, Sarah Lyn Rogers’s Cosmic Tantrum brilliantly confronts society’s infantilization of women by pulling an Uno reverse. What happens when society gets the “good girl” that it asks for? These poems rage during meditations, they defy in corporate emails, they turn their brattiness up so loud that we all turn to watch their meltdowns. But in our watching, we are forced to reckon with our own discomfort with Rogers’s “outsized” anger. This book reminds us that a tantrum is often a result of our own inattention and neglect. How do we soothe the monster we’ve created?"—Taylor Byas, author of I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times
“Too much of this world’s currency / is shame,” writes Sarah Lyn Rogers, in Cosmic Tantrum, which frees childhood of its innocence to indict the false motives of conditional love. Flipping the language of business, fairy tale, and dissolution, Rogers rewrites girlhood to offer a refuge from domesticity. Shifting form and address to reason with Kafka, Charlie Brown, Little Edie in Grey Gardens, and the ghosts that haunt survival, Cosmic Tantrum summons mischief to banish harm." —Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of Touching the Art
“It seems incredible—nay, impossible—that so many great poems could reside in a single collection, but, reader, it is credible and it is possible, because this is a book by Sarah Lyn Rogers. I read each page with absolute greed, astonished by this jewel-like horde of gorgeous ironies and hard-won information about things hidden since the start of the world.” —Lucy Ives, author of An Image of My Name Enters America
"As its title suggests, Sarah Lyn Rogers’s Cosmic Tantrum brilliantly confronts society’s infantilization of women by pulling an Uno reverse. What happens when society gets the “good girl” that it asks for? These poems rage during meditations, they defy in corporate emails, they turn their brattiness up so loud that we all turn to watch their meltdowns. But in our watching, we are forced to reckon with our own discomfort with Rogers’s “outsized” anger. This book reminds us that a tantrum is often a result of our own inattention and neglect. How do we soothe the monster we’ve created?"—Taylor Byas, author of I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times
“Too much of this world’s currency / is shame,” writes Sarah Lyn Rogers, in Cosmic Tantrum, which frees childhood of its innocence to indict the false motives of conditional love. Flipping the language of business, fairy tale, and dissolution, Rogers rewrites girlhood to offer a refuge from domesticity. Shifting form and address to reason with Kafka, Charlie Brown, Little Edie in Grey Gardens, and the ghosts that haunt survival, Cosmic Tantrum summons mischief to banish harm." —Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of Touching the Art
“It seems incredible—nay, impossible—that so many great poems could reside in a single collection, but, reader, it is credible and it is possible, because this is a book by Sarah Lyn Rogers. I read each page with absolute greed, astonished by this jewel-like horde of gorgeous ironies and hard-won information about things hidden since the start of the world.” —Lucy Ives, author of An Image of My Name Enters America
Descriere
Cosmic Tantrum examines how our most intimate relationships shape the way we move through the wider world, and what happens when we reject the stories we’ve inherited about our worth.