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This collection of lyric essays by award-winning poet Kim Moore
explore the dynamics of performing poetry as a female poet –
confronting the implications of being a female on public display,
with the connotations of sexual objectification, in a context that
traditionally disregards the body. Kim states “With the strides
and gains made through the #MeToo movement, I believe the time is
right for a book like this to make an impact. As a female poet, I
know there is a need for such a book to examine the intersection
between writing, performing, feminism and sexism. I wish this
book had been written when I first started working as a freelance
writer and I’ve had many conversations with other female poets
who have also confirmed my thinking – that female poets are
navigating these things regularly, and yet nobody is really writing
or talking about them.” The book draws on her experiences
of writing and performing the poems in her second collection All
the Men I Never Married. It is a balance of memoir, academic
treatise and poetry, though the author’s emphasis is on writing
in a popular way and making the subject accessible to a wide
audience. To achieve this her models have been Maggie
Nelson’s Bluets, Claudia Rankine’s Citizen and Sarah
Ahmed’s Living a Feminist Life. The book’s subjects
include heckling at poetry readings and other interactions;
problems with the ‘male gaze’ and what the ‘female gaze’
might look like in poetry; ‘guilty for being a man’: how guilt
can be useful if it can bring about change; how writing poetry
about sexism can shed add meaning to the term; the objectification
of men and women, and ‘bad faith’ arguments.
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Primers Volume Four (Paperback)
Kim Moore, Jane Commane; Lewis Buxton, Amelia Loulli, Victoria Richards
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