Sex & Violence - Kristy Bowen

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Résumé :
Kristy Bowen is a master of conjuring the treacheries of femininity. In sex & violence, she draws upon such diverse sources as Plath's Ariel poems (here collaged piece by piece to make her own poems so much stranger, and newer, and hauntingly eerie, as in the absence of the missing, familiar words, and the missing, familiar woman) and, to conjure the contrary, poems set to dumb blonde jokes, where the result of two blondes fall(ing) down a hole is that the wishbone of their throats harbor tiny fish and assorted birdery and that, after murder, their bodies can be found placed so careful in their beds each morning. Here is a book to beware of, dear reader. You'll find yourself trapped inside Bowen's enormous wedding cake-- a claustrophobic swirl of sugar and lace, with Horses and house fires placed right next to it, and in its feverish dream of kisses and ruin, you won't want to ever escape. -- Gillian Cummings...

Sommaire:
A writer and book artist working in both text and image, Kristy Bowen is the author of a number of chapbook, zine, and artists book projects. She is the author of several full- length collections of poetry/prose/hybrid work, including SEX & VIOLENCE (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), SALVAGE (Black Lawrence Press, 2016), major characters in minor films (Sundress Publications, 2015), GIRL SHOW (Black Lawrence Press, 2014), and THE SHARED PROPERTIES OF WATER AND STARS (Noctuary Press, 2013). She lives in Chicago, where she runs dancing girl press & studio....