Description
Carr's essays push past familiar boundary lines between the personal/confession and the experimental/conceptual strains in American poetry. Pressing philosophical inquiries into the nature of gender, motherhood, fear, the body, and violence up against readings of twentieth-and twenty-first-century poets, she asks us to consider the political and affective work of poetry in a range of contexts. Carr reports on her own practices, examining her concerns for research and narrative against her investment in lyric, as well as her history as a dancer and her work as curator and publisher.
Someone Shot My Book presents the work of poetry as a somatic, affective, and political project that moves far from the page while remaining grounded always in language's possibilities. It will appeal to poets, feminists, scholars, and anyone interested in the relationships between politics, poetry, and other art forms.
About the Author
Julie Carr is Associate Professor of English, Creative Writing, and Intermedia Arts at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is a co-founder and co-publisher of Counterpath Gallery and Counterpath Press.
Book Information
ISBN 9780472037209
Author Julie Carr
Format Paperback
Page Count 200
Imprint The University of Michigan Press
Publisher The University of Michigan Press
Weight(grams) 240g