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# One Poem by Julianne Neely
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/one-poem-by-julianne-neely/
- Published: 2019-05-15T11:01:46.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:39:36.000Z
- Description: Our poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected one poem by Julianne Neely for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
- Author: Wendy Xu
- Tags: Poetry, Hyperallergic Poetry, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:34 (2019, 2020, part 1)

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Tarsila do Amaral, “Composição (Figura só) (Composition \[Lonely Figure\])” (1930), oil on canvas (photo by Elisa Wouk Almino/Hyperallergic)

## LANDSCAPE WITHOUT FORM

critical theory of an extensible self  
they placed me in the meadow and so I was in the meadow

woman producing  
gender affecting

forming the basis for much poetry

I think riding a horse is idiotic, sue me

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female figure who inhabits

I strangle myself with my own hair

I rearrange my body

recuperating the love of man through the love of nature, shut up

I do not want to be your wife

an abstract but unassailable force  
he desires

how different is our mourning

the speaker stands  
the speaker is experienced

I memorized the slaughter

I was acculturated and socialized

I have been a disappointment,  
of affection,  
of primitiveness,

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Julianne Neely received her MFA degree from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, where she received the Truman Capote Fellowship, the 2017 John Logan Poetry Prize, and a Schupes Prize for Poetry. Her writing has been published in VIDA, The Rumpus, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, *The Iowa Review*, and more. Her chapbook [*The Body Beside Herself*](http://www.slopeeditions.org/current-titles/body-beside-herself?ref=hyperallergic.com) is out now from Slope Editions.