Women in Public
By: Elaine Kahn
Series: City Lights spotlight series -- No. 13
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 101
ISBN-13: 9780872866812
Subjects: Poetry; American poetry; Women
Work titles: Poems
Description: "In Women in Public, the debut full-length collection by poet/musician Elaine Kahn, personal philosophies and collective admissions are put through the corporeal grinder, harnessing the sensual as a medium for the cerebral in order to negotiate the 'feminine condition' of being simultaneously othered and consumed. By turns seductive and self-deprecating, Women in Public navigates a world where the erotics of the body and mind do battle against the constructs that would demean and define them, using lyric, fragment, humor, and repetition to create a space flexible enough to hold the many contradictions of reality. Where expectations and desires can be piled too easily upon the body, Kahn digs in her heels, writing in attempt to liberate physical form from society's confines"--
Notes: Poems