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| Authors: | Waldman, Anne |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| BISAC/Subject: | POE005010, POE024000, LCO002000 |
| ISBN: | 9781101592779, Related ISBNs: 0143123084, 110159277X, 9780143123088, 9781101592779 |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 160, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
Acclaimed for her visionary, incantatory verse and her experimental ethos, Anne Waldman's newest book-length poem is an allegory of a radical spirit in lockdown, dominated by "Deciders" and "Imposters" who threaten the future of poetry and its archive. A doppelganger nightmare ensues: the imposter "Anne" is a succubus, and the original Anne has to break free from a metaphorical castle of torture and psychological domination. There are travels through Vedic cosmology and ancient Japan before resolution on a treeless tundra, where fragile life forms struggle to survive. Waldman's oracular poem is a witty meditation on identity theft and a searing plea for the primacy of imagination and for collective sanity in our provocative yet precarious time.
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