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Anatomy of an Injury
Bringing together the themes of death, of gender and sexuality, the poet creates a speaker whose language and experience, linked from poem to poem, reflects the true complexity of a woman's perspective. Death is a prevalent theme; anxiety, fear and paranoia simmer throughout the poems. Regret, too, is a recurrent theme, as previous experience defines us even by its absence. The societal construct of womanhood, questions of aging, and female stereotypes are for an analysis of women's roles and the speaker's need to subvert modern ideals of femininity and sexuality. The poems often employ satire or self-parody and wry humour to suggest that a woman's understanding of her options in the twenty-first century, in light of the many waves of feminism, is always in flux and always challenging.

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Anatomy of an Injury
Bringing together the themes of death, of gender and sexuality, the poet creates a speaker whose language and experience, linked from poem to poem, reflects the true complexity of a woman's perspective. Death is a prevalent theme; anxiety, fear and paranoia simmer throughout the poems. Regret, too, is a recurrent theme, as previous experience defines us even by its absence. The societal construct of womanhood, questions of aging, and female stereotypes are for an analysis of women's roles and the speaker's need to subvert modern ideals of femininity and sexuality. The poems often employ satire or self-parody and wry humour to suggest that a woman's understanding of her options in the twenty-first century, in light of the many waves of feminism, is always in flux and always challenging.

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Anatomy of an Injury

Anatomy of an Injury

by Myna Wallin
Anatomy of an Injury
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Anatomy of an Injury

by Myna Wallin

Overview

Bringing together the themes of death, of gender and sexuality, the poet creates a speaker whose language and experience, linked from poem to poem, reflects the true complexity of a woman's perspective. Death is a prevalent theme; anxiety, fear and paranoia simmer throughout the poems. Regret, too, is a recurrent theme, as previous experience defines us even by its absence. The societal construct of womanhood, questions of aging, and female stereotypes are for an analysis of women's roles and the speaker's need to subvert modern ideals of femininity and sexuality. The poems often employ satire or self-parody and wry humour to suggest that a woman's understanding of her options in the twenty-first century, in light of the many waves of feminism, is always in flux and always challenging.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781771335171
Publisher: Inanna Publications
Publication date: 06/08/2018
Series: Inanna Poetry & Fiction
Pages: 100
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Myna Wallin is an author and editor living in Toronto. She is the author of a novel, Confessions of a Reluctant Cougar (2010) and a volume of poetry, A Thousand Profane Pieces (2006). Her poetry and short stories have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies including Contemporary Verse 2, Existere, Descant, Literary Review of Canada, Matrix, Rampike, 50+ Poems about Gordon Lightfoot, and Where the Nights are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets.

Table of Contents

I May to December

Reclining Woman in Polka Dot Dress 3

Natalie among the Lilacs 4

In the Service (of): An Elegy to Betty Friedan's the Feminine Mystique 6

I've reached the Age of I Don't Care 8

Moving 10

Ms. Pac-Man Always Rings Twice 12

The Self as Both Object and Subject 15

Requiem to a Marriage 17

Domestication 18

Grey Wolves, Endangered 20

Fool's Gold 21

Contents Sale, Penthouse 1 24

Orange Crush 25

The Letter 27

Dinner Theatre 28

Lights Out 30

I Bleed from Loving 33

Woman at Her Toilette 35

II Those Shadows under Your Eyes

Anatomy of an Injury 39

They Huddle on My Lawn 41

Film Noir 43

White Swan/Black Swan 45

Dreaming at the Roadkill Motel 47

After Watching Scorsese's the Departed 49

Fear the Zombie Ex-Girlfriend 51

An Infestation 53

Help Yourself 55

Christmas Is in Everyone 57

Ligament Issues 59

Ligament Issues, Redux 61

Death, Wildlife and Taxes 62

III Love, Deconstructed

Happy Centenary, Mr. Lazarovitch 69

First-Name Basis 71

A. Garden, in Grosse Pointe 72

Now Serving Date #2,775 74

Spin Me 76

Love, Deconstructed 78

Bikeswept Veronica 80

The Fixer 82

Suite for John

My Thin Man 84

A Case of the Possessive 86

Natural Selection 87

The Things He Does for Me 88

Acknowledgements 91

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