Retribution Forthcoming: Poems

Retribution Forthcoming is a collection of poems that blend a talky, quick, funny voice with candid examinations of gender norms, class pressures, and the existential, exploring selfhood, consciousness, and mortality as they intertwine with our identities and the ways those identities are politicized. It recounts sexual coercion, consumerist society, and the psychological ramifications of these abuses of power, exploring how trauma interacts with belief and our ability to trust others and ourselves.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 86 pages
Publication date: 12 March 2024
Publisher: Ohio University Press

The poems in Retribution Forthcoming are influenced by the New York school of poetry, particularly Alice Notley, Eileen Myles, Rachel Zucker, and other poets. They blend a talky, quick, funny voice with candid examinations of gender norms, class pressures, and the existential. The speaker explores her mortality anxiety through her experiences of gendered exploitation, reflecting on bodily autonomy and the nexus of violences that women face. The poems recount sexual coercion, the ways consumerist society reinforces and reifies gender conformity and performativity, and the psychological ramifications of these abuses of power. Retribution Forthcoming examines selfhood, consciousness, and mortality as they intertwine with our identities and the ways those identities are politicized. At its core, the book is an account of sexual assault and its aftermath, exploring how trauma interacts with belief and our ability to trust others and ourselves.

Dimension: 216 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780821411506