Metabolics: Poems Johnson Jessica E.
Metabolics: Poems Johnson Jessica E. In this debut poetry collection, a single speaker tries to control her body and negotiate her time with digital devices, all the while navigating identities,…
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Metabolics: Poems Johnson Jessica E.
In this debut poetry collection, a single speaker tries to control her body and negotiate her time with digital devices, all the while navigating identities, impulses, and relationships that are often in tension.Metabolics, a book-length poem, borrows the movements of metabolic pathways to consider how nature accomplishes both balance and deep transformation. Johnson employs scientific idioms to construct an allegory about a family in the Pacific Northwest. In visual figures and prose blocks that bridge the divide between poetry and nonfiction, Jessica E.
The region becomes a character in its own right, with cedars, moss, and heavy cloud knitting the mother, father, boy, and girl into their setting.This far-reaching volume also serves as a study of the ecologies of contemporary parenting, with adults and children affected by "feeds" both on screen and off as