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    Trickster Feminism
    Trickster Feminism
    Trickster Feminism
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    Trickster Feminism

    By Anne Waldman

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    New from celebrated poet and performer Anne Waldman - an edgy, visionary collection that meditates on gender, existence, passion and activism

    Mythopoetics, shape shifting, quantum entanglement, Anthropocene blues, litany and chance operation play inside the field of these intertwined poems, which coalesced out of months of protests with some texts penned in the streets. Anne Waldman looks to the imagination of mercurial possibility, to the spirits of the doorway and of crossroads, and to language that jolts the status quo of how one troubles gender and outwits patriarchy. She summons Tarot's Force Arcana, the passion of the suffragettes, and various messengers and heroines of historical, hermetic, and heretical stance, creating an intersectionality of lived experience: class, sexuality, race, politics all enter the din. These are experiments of survival.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Books
    Release dateJul 3, 2018
    ISBN9780525504344
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      Trickster Feminism - Anne Waldman

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      BOOKS, CHAPBOOKS, AND COLLABORATIONS BY ANNE WALDMAN

      On the Wing

      O My Life!

      Giant Night

      Baby Breakdown

      Memorial Day (with Ted Berrigan)

      No Hassles

      The West Indies Poems

      Life Notes: Selected Poems

      Self Portrait (with Joe Brainard)

      Sun the Blonde Out

      Fast Speaking Woman

      Journals & Dreams

      Shaman/Shamane

      Sphinxeries (with Denyse Du Roi)

      Polar Ode (with Eileen Myles)

      Countries (with Reed Bye)

      Cabin

      First Baby Poems

      Makeup on Empty Space

      Invention (with Susan Hall)

      Den Mond in Farbe Sehen

      Skin Meat Bones

      The Romance Thing

      Blue Mosque

      Tell Me About It: Poems for Painters

      Helping the Dreamer: New & Selected Poems, 1966–1988

      Her Story (with Elizabeth Murray)

      Not a Male Pseudonym

      Lokapala

      Fait Accompli

      Troubairitz

      Iovis: All Is Full of Jove

      Kill or Cure

      Iovis II

      Kin (with Susan Rothenberg)

      Polemics (with Anselm Hollo & Jack Collom)

      Homage to Allen G. (with George Schneeman)

      Donna Che Parla Veloce

      Young Manhattan (with Bill Berkson)

      One Voice in Four Parts (with Richard Tuttle)

      Marriage: A Sentence

      Au Lit/Holy (with Eleni Sikelianos & Laird Hunt)

      Zombie Dawn (with Tom Clark)

      Dark Arcana/Afterimage or Glow

      In the Room of Never Grieve: New & Selected Poems, 1985–2003

      Fleuve Flâneur (with Mary Kite & Dave Kite)

      Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble

      Outrider

      Femme Qui Parle Vite

      Red Noir

      Nine Nights Meditation (with Donna Dennis)

      Martyrdom

      Manatee/Humanity

      Matriot Acts

      The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment

      Soldatesque/Soldiering (with Noah Saterstrom)

      Cry Stall Gaze (with Pat Steir)

      Gossamurmur

      Archives, Pour Un Monde Menacé

      Aubaderrying

      Empty Set (with Alexis Myre)

      Jaguar Harmonics

      Sweet-Voiced [Mutilated] Papyrus (with Pamela Lawton)

      Fantastic Caryatids (with Vincent Katz)

      Extinction Aria

      Voice’s Daughter of a Heart Yet to Be Born

      Book title, Trickster Feminism, author, Anne Waldman, imprint, Penguin Books

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      Copyright © 2018 by Anne Waldman

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      LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

      Names: Waldman, Anne, 1945– author.

      Title: Trickster feminism / Anne Waldman.

      Description: New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2018] | Series: Penguin poets

      Identifiers: LCCN 2017060641 (print) | LCCN 2018003371 (ebook) | ISBN 9780525504344 (ebook) | ISBN 9780143132363 (softcover)

      Subjects: | BISAC: POETRY / American / General. | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory.

      Classification: LCC PS3573.A4215 (ebook) | LCC PS3573.A4215 A6 2018 (print) | DDC 811/.54—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017060641

      Version_1

      in memoriam

      ~ Pauline Oliveros ~ Joanne Kyger ~ Geri Allen ~

      pushing against the darkness many decades with silence, poetry, sound, wit, radical exploratory consciousness

      I am so happy in the silky damp dark of the labyrinth and there is no thread.

      —Hélène Cixous

      I have important work for you to do . . . There are many bad creatures on earth. You will have to kill them, otherwise they will eat the New People. When you do this, the New People will honor you . . . They will honor you for killing the People-devouring monsters and for teaching . . . all the ways of living.

      —Okanagan creation story

      "You know, most Egyptians are terrified of cobras, but certain Egyptian women can deal with them. When I was once working at Tell El Fara’in [the ancient city of Buto, home of the cobra goddess Wadjet], I came across women who had names like Miriam the Egyptian or Fatima the Egyptian. If you had a cobra in your house you’d send for one of these women, called rifaiea, who would catch snakes by making them bite on milk-soaked cloths; then they’d pick them up and wrap them around their necks. To do this, these women would have to practice sexual abstinence and undergo purification rites for a month—and would repeat them every year—during which time they drank a thimbleful of snake venom every morning and were rubbed all over with the venom as well."

      —from The Search for Omm Sety

      "Now I can’t tell the day from night,

      I’m crazy as a loon.

      You’ve got me chasin’ rabbits, pullin’ out my hair,

      And howlin’ at the moon."

      —Hank Williams, Howlin’ at the Moon

      CONTENTS

      books, chapbooks, and collaborations by anne waldman

      title page

      copyright

      dedication

      epigraph

      acknowledgments

      trick o’ death

      denouement

      crepuscular

      mash de beauvoir

      clytemnestra’s body polis ticks

      melpomene

      streets of the world

      radio play: face-down-girl

      mash butler

      strangling me with your lasso of stars

      tresses

      patriarchus

      trickster feminism

      rite

      entanglement

      trick o’ life

      coda: time to gambol withal?

      notes & citations

      visuals

      about the author

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      With gratitude to Anselm Berrigan, Ed Bowes, Michelle Ellsworth, Fast Speaking Music, Roger Green, Erika Hodges, Pat Steir, Edwin Torres, and the extremely helpful Lannan Foundation. And to Alicia Ostriker, who turned me toward Biblical Miriam. Applause to my excellent editor Paul Slovak.

      And appreciation to The Brooklyn Rail, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Poetry, The Progressive, and Siècle 21, in which some versions of this writing was published.

      And to MaelstrÖm/ City Lights/ Mondo Di Luce for Crépusculaire, Bookleg #132.

      Melpomene and Trickster Feminism are considered part of the ongoing Iovis Project, Book IV.

      trick o’ death

      when you are sitting

      with the corpse of your friend

      this is what to do

      when what do you do

      if you are strong

      make a binding of your mind

      surface the body

      breathe in quick breaths

      huff! huff!

      this is what to do

      libation in small drops

      on heart center

      coins of ancient India on eyes

      feathers and serpentine

      remembrance

      and open words like talismans

      that shake the cosmos

      as in opening a crypt

      asleep too long

      for death is awakening

      and the alive, like you, ahunted

      like art like phantasm

      they will guide you

      around the heart

      circle around heart’s cold

      with drops of amrita

      leave them there

      of candle, frugal

      or flame

      can she see?

      she can still hear they

      say hearing is last to go

      more of this is what to do

      images of all you loved

      to go and lastly

      enterprise to repeat

      acts of love, and in going

      pound heart once more

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