A Slice From The Cake Made Of Air

a slice from the cake made of air processes the physical and mental trauma of abortion coupled with the desires for sexual and emotional love against a backdrop of contemporary culture--with all the sexualization that comes with race, gender, and landscape. From front to back the book is wound through with a single poem whose language is permuted, translated, and retranslated (from English to English) as it cycles around abortion, both asking "what artifact / do I resemble" and stating "small love / small / you failed it / in person." The poems directly confront the sexual self ("This isn't a real orgasm, a real patellar fatigue") and take up the thesis abstract as a malleable form for interrogating the inevitable intersections and overlaps of brains and bodies. Sexy and volatile, a slice from the cake made of air winds over and through itself, with no conclusions or solutions for the mess of living in the world.

• | Author: Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
• | Publisher: Red Hen Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 21, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 88 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Poetry
• | ISBN-10: 1597093416
• | ISBN-13: 9781597093415