Trickster feminism
By: Anne Waldman
Series: Penguin poets; Penguin poets
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9780143132363
Subjects: Poetry; Feminism
Work titles: Poems
Description: "New from celebrated poet and performer Anne Waldman--a witty, visionary collection that meditates on gender, existence, passion, and protest. How do we investigate the psyche of our playful resistance to assumptions and norms through poetry? What mischief can we invoke as purveyors of a future feminism, its ambiguity, and power? In her new collection, Trickster Feminism, Anne Waldman looks to the imagination of mercurial possibility, to the spirits of the doorway and of crossroads, and to language that jolts the status quo of how one troubles gender and outwits and topples patriarchy. Waldman summons Tarot's Force Arcana, the Bible's Miriam, the passion of the suffragettes, and various messengers and heroines of historical, hermetic, and heretical stance. Melpomene, the muse of tragic poetry, is highlighted as an inspiration for dirge, prophecy, and imagination in action. Mythopoetics, shape shifting, quantum entanglement, chance operation, magic, and divination play inside the field of these poems. Tricksters turn many ways, as does poetry, and in Waldman's rendering, a female trickster's manipulation may be apocalyptic"--
Table of contents: title: Trick o' death; title: Denouement; title: Crepuscular; title: Mash de Beauvoir; title: Clytemnestra's body polis ticks; title: Melpomene; title: Streets of the world; title: Radio play : face-down-girl; title: Mash butler; title: Strangling me with your lasso of stars; title: Tresses; title: Patriarchus; title: Trickster feminism; title: Rite; title: Entanglement; title: Trick o' life; title: Coda : time to gambol withal?