Vulgar Mechanics - by K B Thors (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Thors' poems grapple with queerness and trauma from Alberta to Brooklyn, powering through body, sex, and gender to hit free open roads.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>In <i>Vulgar Mechanics</i>, K. B. Thors seeks to invent new strategies for survival through the two most basic tools available to the speaker: language and the body. The work begins in collapse, the poems acting as witness to the death of a mother. The speaker documents how, as her mother's physical body disintegrates, hidden knowledge rises to the surface in the form of "seismic legacy data." As dark secrets are released, the desire for justice demands improvisation. Moving from the fracked landscapes of the prairies to the steep verticality of New York, this is a collection concerned with hunger, anger, and the shifting fault-lines between play and pain. The poems celebrate the body as a vehicle of excavation and self-determination in a world in which there may be no such a thing as a safe word. Thors pushes against the boundaries of language - the material of sense, meaning - in order to claim a quantum vision of the self, one who transforms trauma into energy through its own multiplicity. The body becomes both ghost and machine, burning the past in its engine to make something beautiful and new, "a thunder egg / bucking the fire pit."<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>K.B. Thors is a poet, translator, and educator from rural Alberta, Canada. Her debut collection <i>Vulgar Mechanics</i> is expected from Partus Press (UK/Iceland) in 2019. Her translation of <i>Stormwarning</i> (Phoneme, 2018) by Icelandic poet Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir won the American Scandinavian Foundation's Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize and is currently nominated for the PEN Literary Award for Poetry in Translation. She is also the Spanish-English translator of <i>Chintungo: The Story of Someone Else by Soledad Marambio</i> (Ugly Ducking Presse, 2018). Her poems, essays and literary criticism have appeared around the U.S., U.K., and Canada. She has an MFA from Columbia University, where she was a Teaching Fellow in Poetry.
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