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Gossamurmur

Gossamurmur - Paperback

by Anne Waldman
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Availability:In StockContributor:Anne WaldmanSeries:Penguin PoetsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2013-04-30Pages:160
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780143123088ISBN-10:143123084UPC:9780143123088Book Category:Poetry, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:American, Women AuthorsAward:2014 Literary Award Finalist - Poetry AwardSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCEXPMD08N
A fascinating new work from an internationally renowned poet

Acclaimed for her visionary, incantatory verse and her experimental ethos, Anne Waldman's newest book-length poem is an allegory of a radical spirit in lockdown, dominated by "Deciders" and "Imposters" who threaten the future of poetry and its archive. A doppelganger nightmare ensues: the imposter "Anne" is a succubus, and the original Anne has to break free from a metaphorical castle of torture and psychological domination. There are travels through Vedic cosmology and ancient Japan before resolution on a treeless tundra, where fragile life forms struggle to survive. Waldman's oracular poem is a witty meditation on identity theft and a searing plea for the primacy of imagination and for collective sanity in our provocative yet precarious time.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780143123088ISBN-10:143123084UPC:9780143123088Book Category:Poetry, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:American, Women AuthorsAward:2014 Literary Award Finalist - Poetry AwardSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCEXPMD08N
Anne Waldman is a celebrated poet, performer, professor, editor, and cultural activist. She is the author of more than forty books, including Marriage: A Sentence; Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble; Manatee/Humanity; and the feminist epic The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment. A recipient of the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award and a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she lives in New York City and Boulder, Colorado.
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Awards

🏆 2014 Literary Award Finalist - Poetry Award

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Anne Waldman

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Anne Waldman

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