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Femme du Monde: Poems
Patricia Spears Jones
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Description for Femme du Monde: Poems
Paperback. Contains poems of positions and relationships, shifting angles on received wisdom or cultural cliche, signifying in an age of raging information and vicious exploitation. The author tackles issues like racism and sexism, but with a poet's eye to details, moments, miracles, pains, and the wildness of the moon and stillness of water. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 6. Weight in Grams: 122.
These are poems of positions and relationships, shifting angles on received wisdom or cultural cliche, fiercely signifying in an age of raging information and vicious exploitation. For Patricia Spears Jones, subjectivity is a challenge and a bugaboo. ""Who wants to know your stuff unless Subject (Black and Female) is violated and/or perseveres against all odds?"" asks Spears Jones. She tackles grand issues like racism and sexism, but with an intimate poet's eye to details, moments, miracles, pains, and the wildness of the moon and stillness of water. History and the visual serve as analogs for this collection, tying together a ... Read more
These are poems of positions and relationships, shifting angles on received wisdom or cultural cliche, fiercely signifying in an age of raging information and vicious exploitation. For Patricia Spears Jones, subjectivity is a challenge and a bugaboo. ""Who wants to know your stuff unless Subject (Black and Female) is violated and/or perseveres against all odds?"" asks Spears Jones. She tackles grand issues like racism and sexism, but with an intimate poet's eye to details, moments, miracles, pains, and the wildness of the moon and stillness of water. History and the visual serve as analogs for this collection, tying together a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Tia Chucha
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781882688319
SKU
V9781882688319
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Patricia Spears Jones
Patricia Spears Jones was born and raised in Arkansas, and has lived in New York City since the mid-1970s. She has been involved in the downtown poetry and theater scenes, working with Mahou Mines, the internationally acclaimed theater collective, and as a poet, teacher, and former Program Coordinator for the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church. She is the author ... Read more
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