Scald

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8229-6450-6
Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press

Buch, Englisch, 88 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 159 g

Reihe: Pitt Poetry Series

When her “smart” phone keeps asking her to autocorrect her name to Denise Richards, Denise Duhamel begins a journey that takes on celebrity, sex, reproduction, and religion with her characteristic wit and insight. The poems in Scald “engage” feminism in two ways—committing to and battling with—various principles and beliefs.  Duhamel wrestles with foremothers and visionaries Shulamith Firestone, Andrea Dworkin, and Mary Daly as well as with pop culture figures such as Helen Reddy, Cyndi Lauper, and Bikini Kill.  In dialogue with artists and writers such as Catherine Opie, Susan Faludi, and Eve Ensler, Duhamel tries to understand our cultural moment.  While Duhamel’s Scald can burn, she has more importantly taken on the role of the ancient Scandinavian “Skald,” one who pays tribute to heroic deeds.  In Duhamel’s case, her heroes are also heroines.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Duhamel, Denise

Über Autor(innen)

Denise Duhamel is professor of English at Florida International University and the author of numerous poetry collections, including Blowout, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Ka-Ching, Two and Two, and Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems. Duhamel has written five chapbooks of poetry and coedited, with Maureen Seaton and David Trinidad, Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry. She has been anthologized widely, including Penguin Academics: Contemporary American Poetry; Seriously Funny: Poems about Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, Sex, and Everything Else; and Word of Mouth: Poems Featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Duhamel was guest editor for The Best American Poetry 2013.