Transcript of the Disappearance: Exact and Diminishing (Pitt Poetry) - Softcover

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Lynn Emanuel is the author of Noose and Hook, Hotel Fiesta, The Dig, Then, Suddenly, and most recently, The Nerve of It, which received the Lenore Marshall Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her work has been collected numerous times in Best American Poetry and included in The Oxford Book of American Poetry. She has been published and reviewed in the New York Times Book Review, the New York Review of Books, the Los Angeles Review of Books, BOMB Magazine, Poetry, and Publishers Weekly. She has been a judge for the National Book Awards and has taught at many venues including the Warren Wilson Program and the Bread Loaf Conference. 

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—PLAGUE’S MONOLOGUE 

I erased the world so nothing can find it, snuffed out the roses, red and hot  

as the snouts of bombs, repealed the polar ice cap, even that fat oxymoron,  

the “industrial park,” has disappeared. And the last few words huddled  

together, like bees in a hive buzzing and plotting? I cut their throats  

with the scythe of a comma, turned the snout of my pen against them.  

I saved by erasing the streets and the people—let them be overgrown  

with absence. I don’t care—there is no limit to my appetite, my lust,  

my zeal for emptiness. But I know you—and you have kept a transcript 

of the disappearance.