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Rot

Rot Anne Carson

Buch (Hardcover)

Der rote Junge Geryon ist unsterblich in Herkules verliebt, der dem Jüngling nicht zu widerstehen vermag. Auf dem Höhepunkt ihrer erotischen Beziehung lässt Herkules Geryon fallen und stürzt diesen in tiefstes Leid. Doch da reist Geryon auf magische Weise aus der Antike in die Gegenwart - und findet Trost in der Fotografie.

Die Lyrikerin Anne Carson hat das Unbändigste und Verrückteste geschaffen, was die Literatur zur Zeit zu bieten hat. Sie setzt Homer in einen Teilchenbeschleuniger, um in der Zersplitterung alter Bedeutungen ein Spiegelbild unserer Gegenwart zu zeichnen. »Rot« ist ungeheuer erotisch und böse wie die griechischen Mythen, melancholisch und lasziv wie Velvet Underground.

»Rot« vereint zwei Werke in einem Band: »Autobiography of Red« und »Red Doc>«.

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Die Quelle unserer Macht

Die Quelle unserer Macht Audre Lorde

Buch (Softcover)


Die vorliegende Auswahl ihres lyrischen Werkes stellte Audre Lorde kurz vor ihrem Tod, während ihres letzten Aufenthaltes in Berlin, selbst zusammen. Die Gedichte umspannen Themen von Liebe und Leidenschaft zwischen Frauen, den vielfältigen Kampf um Selbstbehauptung und gegen den Missbrauch von Macht, das Ausloten von Unterschieden als kreative Kraft und die Vision einer neuen, lebbaren Welt. Ihre persönliche, schmerzvolle und mutige Gratwanderung zwischen Leben und Tod schärften Audre Lordes Blick fürs Wesentliche.

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The Octopus Museum
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The Octopus Museum Brenda Shaughnessy

Buch (Softcover)


Now in paperback, this collection of bold and scathingly beautiful feminist poems imagines what comes after our current age of environmental destruction, racism, sexism, and divisive politics. Informed as much by Brenda Shaughnessy's worst fears as a mother as they are by her superb craft as a poet , the poems in The Octopus Museum blaze forth from her pen: in these pages, we see that what was once a generalized fear for our children is now hyper-reasonable, specific, and multiple: school shootings, nuclear attack, loss of health care, a polluted planet. As Shaughnessy conjures our potential future, she movingly (and often with humor) envisions an age where cephalopods might rule over humankind, a fate she suggests we may just deserve after destroying their oceans. These heartbreaking, terrified poems are the battle cry of a woman who is fighting for the survival of the world she loves, and a stirring exhibition of who we are as a civilization.

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A Place Called No Homeland

A Place Called No Homeland Kai Cheng Thom

Buch (Softcover)

A poetic journey to the place where monstrous women roam, and where distinctions between body, land, and language are lost.

In these fierce yet tender narrative poems, Thom draws from both memory and mythology to create new maps of gender, race, sexuality, and violence. Descended from the traditions of oral storytelling, spoken word, and queer punk, Thom's debut collection is evocative and unforgettable.

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A Theory of Birds

A Theory of Birds Zaina Alsous

Buch (Softcover)

Winner of the 2019 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. Inside the dodo bird is a forest, Inside the forest a peach analog, Inside the peach analog a woman, Inside the woman a lake of funerals.
This layering of bird, woman, place, technology, and ceremony, which begins this first full-length collection by Zaina Alsous, mirrors the layering of insights that marks the collection as a whole. The poems in A Theory of Birds draw on inherited memory, historical record, critical theory, alternative geographies, and sharp observation. In them, birds-particularly extinct species-become metaphor for the violences perpetrated on othered bodies under the colonial gaze. Putting ecological preservation in conversation with Arab racial formation, state vernacular with the chatter of birds, Alsous explores how categorization can be a tool for detachment, domination, and erasure. Stretching their wings toward de-erasure, these poems-their subjects and their logics-refuse to stay put within a single category. This is poetry in support of a decolonized mind.

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