Resting bitch face : poems / Taylor Byas.
| Author/creator | Byas, Taylor author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First Soft Skull edition. |
| Publication | New York, NY : Soft Skull Press, 2025. |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | 98 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Resting bitch face (Compilation) http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/855b0f7e-bf19-2991-b47b-137d5f212a97 |
| Contents | And so you want a poem -- Canvas. Essay on shuttering -- "Asymmetrical images/curvature in drawing, especially in the context of a bodily function which occurs below the belt, tends too conjure thoughts of mischief" -- The day I seized was a belt buckle -- From the photo album -- Joking about the pademic, a friend tests the group chat "I've unhoed myself" -- They call the party the "set" because -- Nikon COOLPIX S210 -- L***, annotated -- A man makes a stoplight his own red-light district -- Watch right -- Tea in the museum -- Sculpture study #2 -- Starved -- The ongoing debate -- They say chivalry is dead -- If I marry a poet, we will argue over descriptions -- When I say no, the joker smiles -- Lessons in grief, piedmont triad international airport (GSO), 5:06 AM -- Photography -- Gesso. Water as villain origin story -- Mirror stage -- In a picture on my boyfriend's phone -- Investigation -- Nan's lover sees the evidence of his abuse -- The monster you may marry -- Sculpture study #3 -- Tell it like a movie / rewind -- Resting bitch face -- My friend says Steven Spielberg is invited to the cookout -- Are you jealous / a burning haibun (form created by Torrin A. Greathouse) -- Sculpture study #4 -- Your husband says let's try something new -- When the therapist asks about intimacy -- Eavesdropping -- Made over -- "Locker room talk" with Satan -- Park proposal (a Chōka) -- Duplex of lessons -- Dry down. Discomfort at the MoMA -- Formal -- In the war photography exhibit, I find so many things wrong -- One of many -- Well damn, Picasso -- Sonnet for longing being mistaken for sadness -- The ocean as misogynist -- The violence of rain -- Applied theory -- Girl's night -- I'm trying to tell you something -- Sonnet for my dating life -- A Valentine's Day poem to myself at 25 -- Re-narrativization -- Love poem, attempt I/? -- In a past life -- Evidence -- A light -- Sculpture study #5 -- Sculpture study #6, or how can I write about flowers at a time like this -- Ekphrasis on memory -- A grammar of lonliness -- Poem in which I try to have the last word -- Signature. In the lens of desire. |
| Abstract | "Resting Bitch Face is a book for women, for Black women, for lovers of art and film criticism, and for writers interested in work that finds a middle ground between poetry and prose. Taylor Byas uses some of our most common ways of 'watching' throughout history (painting, films, sculpture, and photographs) to explore how these mediums shape Black female subjectivity. From the examination of artwork by Picasso, Gauguin, Sally Mann, and Nan Goldin, Byas displays her mastery of the poetic form by engaging in intimate and inventive writing. Fluctuating between watcher and watched, the speaker of these poems uses mirrors and reflections to flip the script and talk back to histories of art, text, photography, relationships, and men. From Polaroids to gesso primer to sculpture, Byas creates a world in which the artist calls out and the muse responds. For not only does she enter the world of the long-revered classic artist, but she also infuses her poems with such iconic pop-culture works as The Joker, WandaVision, and Last Tango in Paris"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| Genre/form | poetry. |
| Genre/form | POE005050. |
| Genre/form | POE023000. |
| Genre/form | POE024000. |
| Genre/form | Poésie. |
| LCCN | 2025004811 |
| ISBN | 9781593767877 paperback |
| ISBN | 1593767870 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |