February 24th, 2010 / 10:58 pm
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If You Like It Naughty

Poetry. The anthology GURLESQUE: THE NEW GRRLY, GROTESQUE, BURLESQUE POETICS brings together eighteen poets of wide-ranging backgrounds, united in their ability to push the aesthetic envelope through radical, femme, Third Wave strategies, and pairs them with visual artists who do the same. At the turn of the millennium, we are witnessing the emergence of a vital–perhaps viral–new strain of female poetics: the “Gurlesque,” a term that describes writers who perform femininity in their poems in a campy or overtly mocking manner, risking the grotesque to shake the foundations of acceptable female behavior and language. Built from the bric-a-brac of girl culture, these works charm and repel: this work is fun, subversive, and important. (New Release — order from SPD)

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6 Comments

  1. February 25th, 2010 / 3:04 am hmmm—

      No thanks. Instead I will poke myself in the eye with a rusty nail. And then go have sex with a more heartfelt performer.

  2. February 24th, 2010 / 11:04 pm hmmm—

      No thanks. Instead I will poke myself in the eye with a rusty nail. And then go have sex with a more heartfelt performer.

  3. February 25th, 2010 / 4:49 pm Dreezer—

      Pushing “the aesthetic envelope through radical, femme, Third Wave strategies” — whatever those are. I’m with hmmm — where’s that rusty nail?

  4. February 25th, 2010 / 12:49 pm Dreezer—

      Pushing “the aesthetic envelope through radical, femme, Third Wave strategies” — whatever those are. I’m with hmmm — where’s that rusty nail?

  5. April 5th, 2010 / 9:51 pm CJ Laity—
  6. April 5th, 2010 / 5:51 pm CJ Laity—