| The Middle Contributor(s): Hume, Angela (Author) |
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ISBN: 1890650838 ISBN-13: 9781890650834 Publisher: Omnidawn OUR PRICE: $10.76 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Women Authors - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| Physical Information: (0.18 lbs) 60 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Middle is beautiful and powerful--Angela Hume's line breaks are beautiful and powerful--her pages are beautiful and powerful--and all that grace animates calm outrage, ghostlier awareness ("private like a thought / for a wrist, of a thigh"), keener sounds ("try looking away try looking away try looking away try looking away try looking away try")--keener ethics, too (first / demarcate // an aesthetics of / / injury")--the body is ghost--polis is eyes but police is eyes too--and polis is police ("state of pacifi / cation state of // damage state of / destroy-all-ex // cess body state of little / to no // speech / ill / state // police / state")--we have to have political poetry--we can't be human otherwise--and what holds here is a new Objectivism--a clarity made actual in a construct of words ("(inhabit that / incision // in such a way that can't be used")--this clarity holds against and in the violence that surrounds us (Benjamin: "something rotten in law is revealed")--Angela Hume is a necessary poet. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hume, Angela: - Angela Hume lives in Oakland. She is the author of the chapbook Second Story of Your Body (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2011). Poems are forthcoming or have appeared in such journals as Little Red Leaves, RealPoetik, eccolinguistics, Zoland Poetry, and Spinning Jenny. Critical work is forthcoming or has appeared in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, ecopoetics, Evening Will Come, and Evental Aesthetics. |