Operating system mai 2018 (4 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Greater Grave is a gorgeous collection that is simultaneously well-crafted and intuitive as well as equally cryptic and explicit. Jacq Greyja deftly unravels and retangles language, bringing to question its ability to make sense of the material world. These poems stretch towards the impossibility of describing the ineffable, remembering the forgotten, and understanding the unfathomable with an effortlessness that is awe-inspiring. As someone who often struggles to reconcile the horror and beauty of embodiment, I felt so heard and seen as I absorbed this work--'i cannot know what i am, ' Greyja writes, but after reading this collection it is clear to me that they are, at the very least, a literary talent worth paying attention to.' --Joshua Jennifer Espinoza Greater Grave documents late-stage capitalism's propensity for decay in relation to the body, intimacy, and memory. The discontinuities between bodily experience, the rhetoric of self-empowerment, and institutional notions of visibility drive the urgency behind these examinations. Fractured language emerges from confrontations with intergenerational pain, ethnicity, queerness, disassociation, and unbelonging. Greater Grave's poetic account of a queer (non)corporeality questions the coded, expected narrative of linear, expansive 'growth'--keeping in mind Anna Tsing's writing on Life in Capitalist Ruins: 'Progress is embedded, too, in widely accepted assumptions about what it means to be human . . . The story of decline offers no leftovers, no excess, nothing that escapes progress. Progress still controls us even in tales of ruination.'.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'In the tradition of the Theater of the Absurd, We, The Monstrous is a brilliant work of resistance that maps the paths that have brought us to the edge of the abyss. Mark DuCharme's script for an 'unrealizable film' examines our fractured humanity, and offers us several possible futures. May we heed the oracle of art and choose wisely, for as this poem proves, everything matters.' --Brenda Coultas What would happen if you woke to find the nightmare you'd been having was all too real We, the Monstrous: Script for an Unrealizable Film explores the effects and consequences individual actions can have in a world gone wrong-- a world very much resembling our own. The rise to power of a megalomaniac leader sparks hate and violence, threatening the common good-- but what can our heroine do about it Part absurdist theater, part classical tragedy, part satiric farce, part call to resistance, all poem, Mark DuCharme's text complicates genre and formal distinctions even as it resists easy answers to modern problems with deep historical roots.This is poet's theater for the age of discord.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'These companionable, searching, smart, smart-ass diary-poems--one per week of pregnancy--talk their human into the baby moving through her into love, racism, climate change, kitties who turn into tigers, domination/damnation of capital, body-pain, fear, gritted teeth, safety (maybe, sometimes), future (maybe), autonomy (no such thing), love.' --Catherine Wagner 'One of my new favorite books! Adra Raine writes poems while pregnant, collaborating with her unborn child, taking long, contemplative looks at the world as cells proliferate inside. Her body is part of our own awakening, to not be shy in a world ready to judge by race, by sex, gender. This is a book about getting ready. This is a book of revolution for beauty unleashed!' - CAConrad, author of While Standing in Line for Death 'There's a scratching uneasiness under Adra Raine's Want-Catcher: A Record of Pregnant Writing. Certainly, we find it in the anxious, intimate accounting of what Raine expects motherhood will change. She renders these instabilities with a directness that doesn't pretend at settled clarity. But what surprised and troubled me is how consumerism wends its hungry way through the 32 weeks documented here. 'A want is a mole, ' Raine writes, suggesting first the small creatures that live inside the dark. But isn't a mole also a kind of traitor Want-Catcher digs through to shine light on desires, how they can turn people into things and leave us wanting. How they tunnel their way into the life-changing and the life-making. Intimate accounting indeed'. --Douglas Kearney Want-Catcher comes out of Adra Raine's writing through her first pregnancy and the way contemporary U.S. culture speaks through, at, and against the pregnant body. Becoming pregnant in late capitalism, one of the first things one encounters in the pregnancy-industrial complex is week-by-week guides to what is happening in the body and in the fetus's development, along the path to the 40-week 'due date.' Taking the week as a unit of measure, Raine wrote for forty weeks, at the end of which arrived a baby and a book. With both, she writes, she 'met a remaining stigma around pregnancy and parenthood, domestic topics both too personal and too mundane to talk about in public, much less write and read poetry about.' Is this poetry It may be prose poetry or poetic prose, or maybe it's memoir or creative nonfiction. Whatever it isn't, Want-Catcher is an offering: a communion of thoughts and feelings and language, a meditation on time and time's record.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Needles of Itching Feathers finds pleasure's pulse in the precarious state of the psychological (and bodily) fascia still keeping us human. As the tissue stretches and tears, birds fly in.