I Built a Boat with All the Towels in Your Closet (and Will Let You Drown) - Paperback

by Leia Penina Wilson (Author)

Leia Penina Wilson's i built a boat with all the towels in your closet (and will let you drown) is at once a love ballad and a warning. These poems are--at their simplest--about relationships, sex, love, creatures, different kinds (and degrees) of violence, and--at their most complex--about the limits of the imagination, of language, and about the power the imagination has over the body. These poems confront the shifty line between human and animal, and urge the question: at what cost the body. Wilson's animal-human doesn't intend to answer that question; instead, she lunges towards it and tears it up and begins again, and again, and again.

Author Biography

Leia Penina Wilson is an MFA candidate in prose at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. When she's not reading or writing, she spends her time baking tiny cakes and cookies. When she's not baking, she plays Magic: The Gathering and cuddles with her boyfriend on the couch. She is the nonfiction editor for The Black Warrior Review. Her work can be found in, or is forthcoming from, Diagram, Alice Blue Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Chariton Review, NAP, and others. She is originally from St. Joseph, Missouri. Her first book, i built a boat with all the towels in your closet (and will let you drown), won the A Room of Her Own Foundation's To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize, selected by Evie Shockley.