Abjectification - Kubasta, C.

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Résumé :
Abjectification mines our most intimate moments to flesh out the horrors of human interaction. In the isolated system of these stories, the past is animate and tangible, located in the body, fantasy & nightmare intertwined. Like matter, what we've loved isn't destroyed, it merely changes forms. A man thinks he's found a haven from the past with a new love in Freak Show; Meghan seems sensitive to exposure, but she isn't the woman Jeff imagines he's been sleeping with at all. A small family begins remodeling their home in Shedding, but their six-year-old daughter Emmy discovers unsettling things in the walls. In Hand-Me-Down, Carly Jo welcomes her high school boyfriend back into her life after he moves home to care for his dying mother; she's haunted by the mother's presence in their lives and in their bed. Old friends reconnect, disregarding Boundaries, only to discover a force is whittling the group down, their new spouses and partners in lethal danger. Kubasta's collection is creepy, haunting, and unapologetically sexy.

Biographie:
C. Kubasta experiments with hybrid forms, excerpted text, and shifting voices-her work has been called claustrophobic and unflinching. Her work proceeds in fits and starts, fragments and half-heard, overheard fragments. Her favorite rejection (so far) noted that one editor loved her work, and the other hated it. Her poetry has appeared in So To Speak, Stand, The Notre Dame Review, Tinderbox Poetry Review and Lemon Hound, among other places. A Lovely Box (Finishing Line Press) won the 2014 Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Chapbook Prize. Her first full-length book All Beautiful & Useless (BlazeVOX, 2015) explores the stories of the accusing girls during the Salem witch trials and growing up with the story of Ed Gein, the notorious Wisconsinite. She teaches, lives and writes in Wisconsin with her beloved John, cat Cliff, and dog Ursula.

Sommaire:
C. Kubasta writes poetry, fiction, and hybrid forms. Her last book was the short-story collection Abjectification (Apprentice House). A former professor of writing, literature, and cultural studies, she is now the executive director of Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts in Mineral Point Wisconsin, which offers arts & crafts workshops for adults and youth. She is passionate about language, rural imagery, and the stories we try not to tell. She's working on herself. Find her at ckubasta.com and follow her @CKfaubastathePoet...