Phantom Captain (Ottoline Prize) - Softcover

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kim Rosenfield is a poet and psychotherapist living and working in Brooklyn, New York.

Originally from Southern California, her first chapbook was published by Ouija Madness Press, Los Angeles in 1982. She is the author of Two Poems (LEAVE books,1995) Good Morning––Midnight–– (Roof Books 200, winner of Small Press Traffic’s Book of the Year Award), Tràma (Krupskaya 2004), re:evolution (Les Figues Press 2009) Lividity (Les Figues Press, 2012) and USO: I’ll Be Seeing You (Ugly Duckling Presse 2013). Her work has been included in the anthologies Bowery Women: Poems (YBK Press 2006), Gurlesque: The New Grrly, Burlesque Poetics (Saturnalia Books 2010), Against Expression (Northwestern University Press 2011), I’ll Drown My Book (Les Figues Press 2012), and The Unexpected Guest: Art, writing and thinking on hospitality (Liverpool Biennial, ART/BOOKS 2018). From 1993-1996, Rosenfield co-edited Object magazine with Robert Fitterman (eclipsearchive.org) and is a founding member of the artist collective, Collective Task (collectivetask.magnetberg.de/). 

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"...what does it mean that I can't take a lifetime

in this aggravating acceleration

to say what I must"

"The shit you smell

Just might be your own"

"I'm trying to deal with troubling matters as thoroughly feminist moments. Take the innocence of financial planners, whose only connections are, at best, in a manner, what might be regarded as impersonal. Whose expectations imply that accumulation of wealth is THE sole context through which activities that are awarded the utmost significance in our world are judged. The best example of the thinking is the idea:

Metaphors are investments instead of possessions"