Unhealthy rituals of the boys They feed him ants This Boy is hugged until he glows with health He is now their King The Boys of the Midwest 4 The women hear the boys catcalls and they know precisely what they mean Boys yell lewd words to anyone who looks like she might be able to resist them Some brief information about the Spartans The women have spent time pondering about the things that haunt men and boys because it will have a direct impact on their own life A boy thinks of all that he will kill All that will try to kill him Some brief information about the Spartans The women are pillars of comfort and physical affection for men The Boys of the Midwest hold my hands in theirs until they ache The Boys of the Midwest 5 At times.
To me this chapbook is a meditation on masculinity and toxic masculinity and its influence on the culture and experience of the American Midwest I wondered for a while where the women were as Katie Schmid painted pictures of boys and men and fathers and then it became clear women are the eyes the observers This is the Midwest as seen by a woman which is dominated by the male experience of the space The girls are waiting for and wondering about their fathers The daughters of the world go to sleep in their fathers work suits warp The women watch the strange dangerous the woman surfaces and has a genderless moment like in 4th of July But then we return to reality in nowhere in which a man rode up on a bike and looked me up and down Nowhere But the reality of the Midwest is that we are beholden to nature When the wind gets in the house there is not much to be done You can try to leave but where is there to go Is nowhere somewhere else or are you already there I love Katie s writing and her ability to surprise you with every sentence She presents her descriptions of the world so straightforwardly and you realize yes this is the world I ve known I ve just never thought of it that way Paperback FULL REVIEW COMING SOON TO SOMEWHERE FANCIER THAN GOODREADS Goodreads is still rad though Paperback Deep waters Love this collection Katie Schmid mesmerizes with her fierce language and powerful images Here are some quotes warpThe daughters of the world go to sleepin their fathers work suits the suitssmelling of tobacco and tic tacs. humA father sleeps alone in his bed his hands finally in a relaxed pile like oldworn socks at day s end In his dream he is just a fatherless boy swimming ina bottomless lake The lake has no borders In his dream he is trapped in thespace of the lake it is his whole world and he begins to suffocate Suddenlyhe wakes The curtains in the dusky bedroom can t muffle the hum of theneon street. LOVE Get a copy Paperback Katie Schmid s poetry is a magical mystery tour that rides the liminal zone where consciousness meets the subconscious Katie s poems swirl around buffet the reader with images like the dust on an old road crosses the railroad tracks Paperback A fell spare spacious Midwestern music intensely lyrical haunted and summative in the same breath as if a Nebraskan oracle spoke from a cave Our fathers are all brokenheartedbut they still name every bird begging usto look at the crows who scratch and gleamin the dirt They name the dark thingsfor us. I can t wait for this writer s full length collection when her lightning strikes everything is going to catch fire Paperback
| forget me hit me let me drink great quantities of clear, evil liquor By Katie Schmid |
| 0990903559 |
| 9780990903550 |
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Micro blurb an infusion of late night rumors mythological press releases Paperback.: In their sleep they cry for the missingfathers and neckties orbit their girl throatsas if pacing their skin in worry. In the morning their humid griefhas warped the floor the boards risein waves