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Making the Tongue Dry

Jen Soriano

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Description:In this collection of lyric essays, which Erin Jones calls “beautiful and haunting,” Jen Soriano tackles chronic pain, climate change, toxic masculinity and the atomic bomb. Using personal stories as a window into big ideas, Soriano dissects destructive systems while asking readers to question our individual roles in maintaining them. Each essay is a study in experimentation with creative nonfiction form; Soriano blends poetry and prose and plays with structure, such that form follows meaning, and meaning is deepened by the spatial arrangement of words on the page.Making the Tongue Dry includes the following essays:•“A Brief History of Her Pain,” a nonlinear timeline of misdiagnosis of women’s illness from ancient times to today, including vignettes and stylized medical records from the author’s own struggles with chronic pain•“Making the Tongue Dry,” a play on Ovid’s Metamorphoses told in mini-epic form, this essay is an origin story about the global climate crisis and its connections to austerity and extractive capitalism•“Unbroken Water,” a reflection on the values by which we organize society, this essay recounts the story of an indigenous people’s festival in the Philippines, and asks whether we will choose interdependence and communalism over the individualism and authoritarianism that have led to a new era of creeping fascism across the globe•“Razing Boys,” inspired by Carolyn Fourché’s “The Colonel,” this prose poem in the form of a newspaper article is a snapshot of one moment in the lives of young boys, told from Soriano’s perspective as the mother of a toddler son•“War-Fire,” a cinematographic look at the intergenerational transmission of trauma, this essay focuses on the author and her grandfather, who was a prisoner of war during World War II•“Blow,” an essay in the form of an atomic explosion with impacts radiating out from a nuclear core, this piece explores how even the most innocent among us are implicated in larger cycles of destruction, regeneration and enduranceMaking the Tongue Dry is an important collection for lyric essay lovers and teachers alike, and is a vibrant experience of what Khadija Queen calls “deep complexities, sensitively captured.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Making the Tongue Dry. To get started finding Making the Tongue Dry, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 52

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Lionswrite Publications

Release: 2020

ISBN: 0578657449

Description: In this collection of lyric essays, which Erin Jones calls “beautiful and haunting,” Jen Soriano tackles chronic pain, climate change, toxic masculinity and the atomic bomb. Using personal stories as a window into big ideas, Soriano dissects destructive systems while asking readers to question our individual roles in maintaining them. Each essay is a study in experimentation with creative nonfiction form; Soriano blends poetry and prose and plays with structure, such that form follows meaning, and meaning is deepened by the spatial arrangement of words on the page.Making the Tongue Dry includes the following essays:•“A Brief History of Her Pain,” a nonlinear timeline of misdiagnosis of women’s illness from ancient times to today, including vignettes and stylized medical records from the author’s own struggles with chronic pain•“Making the Tongue Dry,” a play on Ovid’s Metamorphoses told in mini-epic form, this essay is an origin story about the global climate crisis and its connections to austerity and extractive capitalism•“Unbroken Water,” a reflection on the values by which we organize society, this essay recounts the story of an indigenous people’s festival in the Philippines, and asks whether we will choose interdependence and communalism over the individualism and authoritarianism that have led to a new era of creeping fascism across the globe•“Razing Boys,” inspired by Carolyn Fourché’s “The Colonel,” this prose poem in the form of a newspaper article is a snapshot of one moment in the lives of young boys, told from Soriano’s perspective as the mother of a toddler son•“War-Fire,” a cinematographic look at the intergenerational transmission of trauma, this essay focuses on the author and her grandfather, who was a prisoner of war during World War II•“Blow,” an essay in the form of an atomic explosion with impacts radiating out from a nuclear core, this piece explores how even the most innocent among us are implicated in larger cycles of destruction, regeneration and enduranceMaking the Tongue Dry is an important collection for lyric essay lovers and teachers alike, and is a vibrant experience of what Khadija Queen calls “deep complexities, sensitively captured.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Making the Tongue Dry. To get started finding Making the Tongue Dry, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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