“It was breeding season, / wasn't it, and they were running from something,” writes Caitlin Roach. Surveille's queer speaker is on the cusp of motherhood, vacillating between attentiveness and paranoia, surveilling her body, civic bodies, natural and political landscapes, and the child she longs to bring into—and ultimately protect from—this hostile world.
Exploring drone strikes, scorpion eradication, bird behavior, mating deer, ICE detainees, and family relationships, Roach's poems stare into and through the truth with a blazing intensity. She writes, “Still, I watch / the watcher watch me watch / the man standing in front of me / peering through the crosshatch / iron mesh, waiting for bodies / beloved he knows he cannot touch / to arrive on the other side.”
Surveille is a book about people under various forms of control (self-inflicted and external), about watching and being watched (by oneself, by others, by the state), about mothering, and about the desperate search for meaning in a world that feels increasingly violent and filled with despair.
| ISBN: | 9780299351144 |
| Publication date: | 12th November 2024 |
| Author: | Caitlin Roach |
| Publisher: | The University of Wisconsin Press an imprint of University of Wisconsin Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 106 pages |
| Series: | Wisconsin Poetry Series |
| Genres: |
Poetry |
“It was breeding season, / wasn't it, and they were running from something,” writes Caitlin Roach. Surveille's queer speaker is on the cusp of motherhood, vacillating between attentiveness and paranoia, surveilling her body, civic bodies, natural and political landscapes, and the child she longs to bring into—and ultimately protect from—this hostile world.
Surveille features in the following genres: Poetry
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Surveille was written by Caitlin Roach and published by The University of Wisconsin Press an imprint of University of Wisconsin Press
Surveille has 106 pages
Yes it is part of Wisconsin Poetry Series series
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