"afFect theory" by Julianne Neely

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"afFect theory" by Julianne Neely

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This chapbook-length poem performs and undoes the language of heteropatriarchy, creating a variegated syntax through which narrative, trauma, and the self move. 25 pages. Black screwpost binding. Letterpressed cover on chartreuse paper.

BRUTALLY i cannot believe a, human mouth, can make. such sounds make the metrics, count you. will not be able to. nor will i as such to. be one-with the appropriate syllables savage dialectical rotation. “as in a,” father screenshotting a, picture of a daughter, he saw, “online wearing a” tie and sending it, back to them asking. really, rather, politely not to post pictures wearing. a tie on the internet, screenshot, the screenshot. enough repetition and. it becomes quite. endearing i was thinking more monastically those days even totemically in lieu of flowers i sent an e-mail it was really quite, dumb that myth about. throwing a penny off the empire state building fear.

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Julianne Neely received her MFA degree from the Iowa Writer's Workshop, where she received the Truman Capote Fellowship, the 2017 John Logan Poetry Prize, and a Schupes Fellowship for Poetry. She is currently a Poetics PhD student and an English Department Fellow at the University at Buffalo. Her writing has been published in Hyperallergic, VIDA, The Poetry Project, The Rumpus, The Iowa Review and more. Her chapbook The Body Beside Herself is available from Slope Editions.