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Danielle Cadena Deulen

Desire Museum

Desire Museum

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The Desire Museum by Danielle Cadena Deulen is a collection of poems that explore the complexities of desire, including lost love, friendship, climate crisis, lesbian relationships, and the imprisonment of children at the U.S.-Mexico border. It examines the pleasures and pitfalls of sex, the anxieties of motherhood, and the ramifications of interpersonal, sociopolitical, and environmental trauma in women's lives. The poems seamlessly weave memories into dreamscapes and blur the human and natural worlds, showing that to live alongside desire is to refuse to be contained.

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Length: 104 pages
Publication date: 23 November 2023
Publisher: BOA Editions, Limited


Consumed with the accumulation of lost time and unfulfilled longing, Desire Museum by Danielle Cadena Deulen is an intricate exploration of things left unfinished or unsatisfied.

Divided into four sections and shaped by female-identified embodiment, Desire Museum touches on lost love and friendship, climate crisis, lesbian relationships, and the imprisonment of children at the U.S.-Mexico border. These poems trace the pleasures and pitfalls of sex, the anxieties of motherhood, and the ramifications of interpersonal, sociopolitical, and environmental trauma in womens lives.

In these pages, Deulen holds up a candle to desire itself, questioning what it means to recognize and embrace one's desires, or what it might mean to let them go. In conversation with Hopkins, Keats, Crane, and Lorca, Deulen seamlessly weaves memories into dreamscapes and blurs the human and natural worlds.

With love, wonder, grief, and awe, Desire Museum shows us that to live alongside desire is to refuse to be contained: "I refuse meaning [ ] the first sunrise reiterates the last."


Dimension: 177 x 228 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781960145000

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