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    All the Gold Hurts My Mouth
    All the Gold Hurts My Mouth
    All the Gold Hurts My Mouth
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    All the Gold Hurts My Mouth

    By Katherine Leyton

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    Winner, 2017 ReLit Award

    Katherine Leyton's fresh and vibrant debut collection takes on the sexual politics of the twenty-first century, boldly holding up a mirror to the male gaze and interrogating the nature of images and illusions.

    Confronting the forces of mass communication — whether television, movies, or the Internet — Leyton explores the subtle effects of the media on our perceptions and interactions, including the pain of alienation and the threat of violence simmering just below the surface.

    And yet, for all its unflinching and raw lyricism, the poetry of All the Gold Hurts My Mouth is warm and searching, full of humour and hope. Engaging her readers with lush vocabulary and spare, tightly controlled forms, Leyton's poems become a rich quest for identity, authenticity, and nature uncorrupted. Reaching gloriously from isolation and pain to connection with love, Leyton channels the wit of feminists past to create a manifesto for our time, an affirmation of what might be possible.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGoose Lane Editions
    Release dateMar 15, 2016
    ISBN9780864928467
    All the Gold Hurts My Mouth
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    Katherine Leyton

    Katherine Leyton was the inaugural writer-in-residence at the Al & Eurithe Purdy A-Frame in the summer of 2014. Her poetry and non-fiction have appeared in numerous publications, including the Malahat Review, Hazlitt, the Globe and Mail, and the Edinburgh Review. She is also the founder of the highly unorthodox video poetry blog, HowPedestrian.ca. A native of Toronto, Leyton has lived in Rome, Montreal, Edinburgh, and Forli.

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      All the Gold Hurts My Mouth - Katherine Leyton

      In this fierce debut, Leyton explores women as palaces and grand pianos, gleaming objects admired and shattered. Through her lyrically exuberant voice, whirring with musicality and subversive jabs, art becomes a looking glass. Just as ‘women hum to drown their hunger,’ these poems bring the salve of self-creation to their reader.

      — Cassidy McFadzean, author of Hacker Packer

      "Leyton’s voice is both enigmatic and unabashed, delving into the mysteries of selfhood while offering a vivid meditation on what it means to be a woman alive today.

      A fearless, urgent, and beautifully wrought debut."

      — Kerry-Lee Powell, author of Inheritance

      All the Gold Hurts My Mouth pulls no punches. Combining a visceral feminism with sharp eroticism, Katherine Leyton takes on sexual politics in the twenty-first century. As she holds up a mirror to the male gaze, she unflinchingly interrogates the nature of images and masks as they work through television, movies, and the Internet — the hyperreality that influences our perceptions and interactions.

      Yet, for all of that, this vivid collection is also a rich quest for identity, authenticity, and nature uncorrupted. Gloriously reaching for connection and love, for honesty and intimacy, Leyton gives voice to a bold, resounding feminism in this manifesto for our age.

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      Title Page

      Copyright

      Dedication

      Epigraph

      Poems

      Richard

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