{"id":6287,"date":"2024-01-02T15:19:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T20:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/?post_type=product&p=6287"},"modified":"2024-11-13T13:41:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T18:41:55","slug":"nonbinary-bird-of-paradise","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/product\/nonbinary-bird-of-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonbinary Bird of Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nonbinary Bird of Paradise<\/span><\/span><\/em> shakes its tail feathers, reveling in a body that cannot be contained in gender binaries. Its opening sequence re-imagines the <\/span>Judeo-Christian<\/span> 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. \/ <\/span>So<\/span> 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 <\/span>of<\/span> self after self after self. \u201cWould you stay \/\/ & watch me,\u201d Phillips asks in the titular poem, wondering if the beloved will <\/span>deem<\/span> them desirable, even though they are masculine without being a man, \u201ceven \/ though \/ I have no blue velvet \/ skirt or ruby-raw \/ throat?\u201d<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

About the author<\/h2>\n

Emilia Phillips (they\/them\/theirs) is the author of four <\/span>previous<\/span> poetry collections from the University of Akron Press, including <\/span><\/span>Embouchure<\/span><\/span><\/em> (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<\/span>.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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“Phillips\u2019s skillful revising of ancient myths of self and body inventively widen the meaning and scope of paradise.” \u2014Publishers Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n

“What lifts these poems above most accounts of personal identity are a crackling tropological energy and a revisionary generosity toward the western myths and canonical texts that form a basis for gender roles.” \u2014David Woo, “Sight and the Sacred: 7 New Poetry Books to Read This April<\/a>“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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