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The Ohio State University Press/The

Journal

Award in Poetry

for my mother and father

Antidote

Corey Van Landingham

The Ohio State University Press | Columbus

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Van Landingham, Corey, 1986–

Antidote / Corey Van Landingham.

p. cm. — (Ohio State University Press/The journal award in poetry)

Summary: In Corey Van Landingham’s Antidote, love equates with disease, valediction is a

contact sport, the moon is a lunatic, and someone is always watching. Here the uncanny co-exists

with the personal, so that each poem undergoes making and unmaking, is birthed and bound in

an acute strangeness. Wild and surreal, driven by loss, Antidote invites both the beautiful and the

brutal into its arms, allowing for shocking declarations about love: that it is like hibernation, a car

crash, or a parasite. It soon becomes clear that there is no antidote for grief or heartbreak, that

love can, at times, feel like violence, and that one may never get better at saying goodbye.

ISBN-13: 978-0-8142-5187-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)

ISBN-10: 0-8142-5187-0 (pbk. : alk. paper)

ISBN-13: 978-0-8142-9343-0 (cd-rom)

ISBN-10: 0-8142-9343-3 (cd-rom)

1. Poetry, Modern—21st century. I. Title. II. Series: Ohio State University Press/The journal

award in poetry.

PS3622.A585494A83 2013

811'.6—dc23

2013009412

Cover design by Thao Thai

Type set in Janson

Printed by BookMobile

The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American

National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library

Materials. ANSI Z39.48–1992.

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