The Ravenous Audience (Black Goat #0)

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A startling debut volume, the latest in Chris Abani's Black Goat Poetry Series. "Christianity or cuisine, cinema or sex manuals, Eros or Thanatos, Artaud or Marilyn Monroe? Marry or suture or eat all of them and you are close to Ravenous. A brutal tour de force." --Juan Felipe Herrera, author of Half of the World in Light "Durbin's debut volume sizzles...Throughout this deeply feminist, groundbreaking collection, she employs both the elemental forces of her intellect and a vigorous intensity of startling imagery to implode or explode conventional notions of sexuality and womanhood." --Maurya Simon, author of Cartographies "Durbin writes first-rate traditional lyric poems, while at other times she writes poems that push the limits of the avant-garde and, most amazingly, at other times, she makes a loving marriage of the two! This is an exceptional debut by a young poet burning with talent." --Thomas Lux, author of God Particles Black Goat is an independent poetry imprint of Akashic Books created and curated by award-winning Nigerian author Chris Abani (author of Becoming Abigail and Song for Night). Black Goat is committed to publishing well-crafted poetry with a focus on experimental or thematically challenging work. The series aims to create a proportional representation of female poets and non-American poets, particularly poets from Africa. Little Red Riding Hood, Jezebel, Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl, Marilyn Monroe, Amelia Earhart, Pier Paolo Pasolini's Christ--these are only a few of the archetypal and pop cultural characters that populate Kate Durbin's strange and mesmerizing coming-of-age poetry collection, The Ravenous Audience.
Copyright:
2009

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
144 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781617751233
Related ISBNs:
9781933354880
Publisher:
Akashic Books, Ltd.
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Kate Durbin
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Poetry, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies
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