{"id":6182,"date":"2023-03-17T09:14:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T13:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/?p=6182"},"modified":"2023-03-17T09:39:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T13:39:52","slug":"phillips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/phillips\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Akron Press to Publish Nonbinary Bird of Paradise, a New Poetry Collection by Emilia Phillips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6184\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1387\/2023\/03\/Phillips-1.jpg?w=480\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1387\/2023\/03\/Phillips-1.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1387\/2023\/03\/Phillips-1.jpg?resize=150,150 150w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1387\/2023\/03\/Phillips-1.jpg?resize=480,480 480w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1387\/2023\/03\/Phillips-1.jpg?resize=768,768 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1387\/2023\/03\/Phillips-1.jpg?resize=320,320 320w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1387\/2023\/03\/Phillips-1.jpg?resize=800,800 800w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1387\/2023\/03\/Phillips-1.jpg?resize=200,200 200w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1387\/2023\/03\/Phillips-1.jpg?resize=750,750 750w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1387\/2023\/03\/Phillips-1.jpg?resize=100,100 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of Akron Press is excited to announce that it will publish <em>Nonbinary Bird of Paradise<\/em>, a new poetry collection by Emilia Phillips. Phillips (they\/them\/theirs) is the author of four previous poetry collections from The University of Akron Press, including <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/product\/embouchure\/\"><em>Embouchure<\/em><\/a> (2021), and five chapbooks. Their poetry, creative nonfiction, and book reviews have appeared widely. They are an Associate Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English; MFA in Writing Program; and the Women\u2019s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at UNC Greensboro.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nonbinary Bird of Paradise<\/em> shakes its tail feathers, reveling in a body that cannot be contained in gender binaries. Its opening sequence re-imagines the Judeo-Christian Eve as a queer person who, instead of eating of the proverbial forbidden fruit, conjures a femme lover: \u201cGod made man \/ in his own image, \/ so they say. \/ So I made a beloved \/ in mine,\u201d she says. Eve\u2019s power triggers a jealous God to manipulate Adam toward behaviors of toxic masculinity and to exile the two humans from the Garden of Eden. This retelling, accompanied by other retellings of classical and biblical narratives, indicts the ways in which religion and myth have created and buttressed compulsory heterosexuality. Elsewhere in the collection, Phillips delights in the autobiography of their imagination, the rendering of self after self after self. \u201cWould you stay \/\/ &amp; watch me,\u201d Phillips asks in the titular poem, wondering if the beloved will deem them desirable, even though they are masculine without being a man, \u201ceven \/ though \/ I have no blue velvet \/ skirt or ruby-raw \/ throat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Akron Press is excited to announce that it will publish Nonbinary Bird of Paradise, a new poetry collection by Emilia Phillips. Phillips (they\/them\/theirs) is the author of four previous poetry collections from The University of Akron Press, including Embouchure (2021), and five chapbooks. 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