melissa christine goodrum - something sweet and filled with blood
melissa christine goodrum - something sweet and filled with blood
POETRY
In her second poetry collection, melissa christine goodrum demonstrates a growing talent. Drawing from her experience in a musical family, a deep well of feeling, and expansive knowledge of art and art history, she presents subjects ranging from Elizabeth Boott Duveneck and Susan Apthop, their true selves hidden—she might say jailed—on museum walls, to the works of artists Ronald Lokett, Manet, Degas, and Kehinde Wiley. Through a variety of poetic forms, goodrum shakes up convention by imagining the inner lives and thoughts of these subjects through the lens of current day politics and issues of race and gender identity.
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“melissa christine goodrum’s poems are taut, burgeoning beams of ancestors, wriggling onto the page with totems of sound—history surrounding each page.”—Tyehimba Jess, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
“However we interpret these enigmatic and sometimes excruciatingly painful poems, they are brilliant and beautiful. something sweet & filled with blood is a new moment in language, wonderful in and of itself, and a harbinger of great things to come.”—Sapphire
“A great example of a collection in which the poetry is composed with the techniques of a painter…The poems themselves become opportunities to examine the myriad emotional, social, and political vulnerabilities that all of us are swept up in.”—At the Inkwell
“Like stepping into a gallery of haunting, distinct, and, at times, disjointed images that correlate with wild leaps of imagination.”— Pedestal Magazine
melissa christine goodrum's poetry can be found in The New York Quarterly, The Torch, The Tiny, Rhapsoidia, Transmission, Cusp, a harpy flies down (a chapbook by Other Rooms Press), Urgent Bards, The Bowery Women Poems, and Like Light: 25 Years of Poetry & Prose. Her experiences include Co-Editor of The Brooklyn Review, Designer/Publisher/Editor of Cave Canem’s “Writing Down the Music” and “Letters to the Future,” Co-President of the Cambridge Poetry Awards, Administrative Director of Bowery Arts & Science, and recipient of a Zora Neale Hurston Award from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University.
Publication date April 15, 2019
$18.00
ISBN: 978-0-9981440-5-4