Young feminists today are becoming activists on behalf of many causes beyond the classic and indispensable--feminist ones of reproductive rights and equal pay for equal work. In The Fire This Time, Dawn Martin, one of four founders of The Third Wave Foundation--a multiracial, multi-issue, and multicultural activist organization--and Vivien Labaton, its first executive director, offer an exciting cross section of feminist voices that express new directions in activism, identity, and thought. Ayana Bird dissects the role of black women in hip-hop; Joshua Breitbart and Ana Noguiera...
Young feminists today are becoming activists on behalf of many causes beyond the classic and indispensable--feminist ones of reproductive rights and e...
Dawn Lundy Martin s work is neither language poetry, which rejects the speaking subject, nor strictly lyric, which embraces the speaking I. It might best be described as poetry where, in the words of Juliana Spahr, the lyric meets language --both an investigation into the opacity of language and the expression of a passionate speaker who struggles to speak meaningfully.
Martin s poems bend the form into something new, seeking a way to approach the horrific and its effect on the psyche more fully than might be possible in the worn groove of the traditional lyric. Her formal inventiveness...
Dawn Lundy Martin s work is neither language poetry, which rejects the speaking subject, nor strictly lyric, which embraces the speaking I. It migh...
This stunning second collection engages the "disciplines" associated with regimes of powers and sadomasochism. The work interrogates the social and linguistic space between regimes of power enacted on the body, and thereby the soul.
This stunning second collection engages the "disciplines" associated with regimes of powers and sadomasochism. The work interrogates the social and li...
Dawn Lundy Martin's Life in a Box is a Pretty Life investigates the ways in which language claims absolute knowledge and draws a box around lived experience. Martin writes poems that seek out moments when the box buckles, or breaks, poems that suggest there is more. Life in a Box is a Pretty Life continues Martin's investigation into what is produced in the interstices between the body, experience, and language, and how alternative narratives can yield some other knowledge about what it means to be black (or female, or queer) in contemporary America.
Dawn Lundy Martin's Life in a Box is a Pretty Life investigates the ways in which language claims absolute knowledge and draws a box around lived expe...
