Blud Contributor(s): McKibbens, Rachel (Author) |
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ISBN: 1556595247 ISBN-13: 9781556595240 Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback Published: October 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Lgbt - Poetry | American - Hispanic American - Poetry | Women Authors |
Dewey: 811.6 |
LCCN: 2017022743 |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" L (0.40 lbs) 88 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Gay - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Features: Price on Product |
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/18/2017 Booklist 10/01/2017 pg. 14 Shelf Awareness 11/07/2017 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Throughout BLUD], McKibbens breathes brilliant life into language, forging lush, rhythmic poems that are both fiercely urgent and tightly controlled, dark and flickering with fairy-tale-like magic. . . . Stunning, unflinching, fearless.―Booklist Starred Review Chicana poet, activist, and witchy folk hero of the disenfranchised. . . . McKibbens] creates these spaces of witness with her feral and boundary-pushing poems that speak unflinchingly of topics often swept under the rug: rape, domestic violence, body shaming, mental illness, prejudice.--Ploughshares McKibbens, a pioneer in the art of performance poetry, presents her audience with] selfless honesty.--The Rumpus Rachel McKibbens . . . reminds us why poetry as testimony is so necessary. --Poetry Foundation McKibbens's blud is a collection of dark, rhythmic poems interested in the ways in which inherited things--bloodlines, mental illnesses, trauma--affect their inheritors. Reveling in form and sound, McKibbens's writing takes back control, undaunted by the idea of sinking its teeth into the ugliest moments of life, while still believing--and looking for--the good underneath all the bruising. From untitled (lost love): To my daughters I need to say: Rachel McKibbens is a poet, activist, playwright, essayist, and two-time New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellow. She is the author of four books and founder of The Pink Door, an annual writing retreat open exclusively to women of color. She lives in Rochester, New York. |
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