Summary
"In As I Said: A Dissent, Abby Minor rejects the vacated terms of the conventional "abortion debate." Instead, these polyvocal poems explore the "exquisite business" of inheritance, embodiment, justice, and citizenship. Anchored by a documentary study of the infamous nineteenth-century abortion prov... Full description
- I. Real words for inside. When it comes to revelation
- In South Dakota they are looking for neutrinos
- I would like for a collider
- If still you see yourself laid
- I should mention that my father was a particle
- This poem started out to be about
- Real words for inside are fish-
- It turns out that yesterday I stood
- II. Once in a black silk gown: a film noir. Footage
- A plant, a diamond, a darkness
- Hers
- Introducing
- Advertised
- Once
- A close-up
- Introducing
- At the idea
- A close-up
- Water's
- Introducing
- Voice, over
- Spirit
- Six scenes of trial
- Once I
- Leaving the New York Historical
- III. Blood dress: a diary
- IV. H/ours.