Portrait of the Future with Trapdoor explores what happens when the body and society each turn on themselves. The book traverses grief, disease, surgery, fertility, mass weddings, mass shootings, fallout, war, abduction, and the gradual collapse of ecosystems yet the poems are funny, confessional, and self-deprecating with a tinge of the absurd. They have a willingness not to know, to fiercely acknowledge suffering while mounting an escape. Please visit Red Paint Hill (redpainthill dot com) for additional ordering information br PRAISE I've never seen infertility described such so magically, weaving science, lyric, heartache, ruthless precision, with the fanciful strange surreal, all through an apocalyptic lens that ends with rebirth (birth!) and hope! A really fresh take on a topic close to my heart. 'Tracking,' 'How to Be Almighty,' and 'The Evidence Against Me' absolutely cinched this contest for me. I adore these poems (and many others in the collection). The speaker's examination of her own body takes my breath away. -Jennifer Givhan, author Landscape with Headless Mama, winner 2015 Editors' Prize Pleiades Press Because, as Elizabeth Onusko tells us, Sadness is rarely precise, each poem in this book tries to surround and plumb its imprecision with language so acutely exacting that the impossibility of locating sadness and its remedy is made evermore sad, the desire for a child and a pathology s thwarting of that desire evermore desirous and unfulfilled until, as magically as these beautiful poems seem to have arrived (against all odds, always), the body, too, arrives anew. There are moments in this book as rare and unexpected as any in contemporary poetry today. And that is because of one thing: Onusko is luminous. -Katie Ford, author of Deposition, Colosseum, and Blood Lyrics Welcome to the battlefield. In this electrically charged debut, Elizabeth Onusko pits societal revolutionaries against the human body fragile under the dominion of disease. Whether on the grandest scale or at the microscopic, cellular level, Onusko s precise imagery builds a new landscape both magical and terrifying. Here, we are trapped behind walls of bone, skulls become fishbowls, glass drops from a spiraling staircase charting a powerful journey in search of the healing that opens the door. -Cynthia Marie Hoffman, author of Sightseer, Her Human Costume, and Paper Doll Fetus

Portrait of the Future with Trapdoor

Elizabeth Onusko

Red Paint Hill Publishing

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Portrait of the Future with Trapdoor