Bøker av Nancy Kuhl

On Hysteria is a lyric engagement of voice, memory, longing, and the fraught ways we speak ourselves. In conversation with Freud's Studies on Hysteria, Nancy Kuhl reframes the discourse surrounding "hysterical" women.

"This exceptional poet hits a new height with each new book, and the view from this one is great!" - Cole Swensen

Taking place within a lunar month, and likewise, within a menstrual cycle, this title is deeply concerned with pregnancy, sexual desire, self and self-doubled and doubling.

A collection of poems, which explores the lyric possibilities found within the sometimes narrow space of the domestic interior, caught between the quotidian and the uncanny. Presented in a language that is elegant and oneiric, the poems attempt to recast the daily ambiguities of living with others.