Pine

by Julia Koets

Overview

Winner of the 2019 Michael Waters Poetry Prize
Winner of the American Book Fest 2022 “Narrative Poetry” Best Book Award

Pine maps a secret relationship between two women in the South, where certain kinds of desire—queer desire, in particular—have historically been hidden and feared. Creating new landscapes of identity by reimagining form, modifying villanelles, sonnets, elegies, thank-you notes, and dictionary entries, Pine’s imagistic and metaphorical associations between the body and the natural world form a queer ecology of longing and loss.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781930508491
Publisher:	Southern Indiana Review Press
Publication date:	04/05/2021
Pages:	72
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Julia Koets is the winner of the 2017 Red Hen Press Nonfiction Book Award judged by Mark Doty for The Rib Joint: A Memoir in Essays. Her first poetry collection, Hold Like Owls (University of South Carolina Press), won the 2011 South Carolina Poetry Book Prize judged by National Book Award winner Nikky Finney. Koets’s essays and poems have recently appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Indiana Review, The Los Angeles Review, and Portland Review. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of South Carolina and a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Cincinnati. Koets is an assistant professor of creative nonfiction at the University of South Florida.

Table of Contents

The Science of 5

The Breakers 6

Eros as oxygen mask 7

If desire is always a desire for recognition 8

Eros as fish 9

Boys 10

The Boathouse 11

Solstice (On the year's longest day, you decide to float) 12

Beach Town Elegy 13

Bullfrog Drawl 14

Eros as high school 15

Pine 16

Eros as bicycle 17

Hull & Hollow 18

Field Notes on Loving a Girl in Secret 19

Thank-you Note to College Algebra 20

Eros as recliner 21

Apple Season 22

Solstice (We stay up later and later that fall) 23

August 24

Elegy for Selenography 25

Daughter Elegy 26

Moon Wedding 27

Eros as bus 28

Shed 33

Antlery (A picture of us hangs like a rack of antlers) 34

Alternate Names for Winter 35

Antlery (Our want grew, & it makes sense) 36

Love in an Efficiency Apartment 37

Antlery (Our antlers differ in the number of tines) 38

Eros as operating system 39

Antlery (Antlers depend on the length of daylight) 40

One Theory of Loss 41

A Sure Break 42

Eros as eyeglasses 43

Teaching on Chinese New Year 44

Nightjar, Opening 45

Overgrowth 46

A Love Poem to Sally Ride 47

Thank-You Note to E.T.'s Elliott 49

A Villanelle for Jodie Foster 50

Moon Prayer 51

Welcome Gift 52

Preservation 53

Eros as asteroid 54

Vernal Equinox 55

Notes 57

Acknowledgments 59