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4.0 out of 5 stars
One of my most favorite recent reads,
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This review is from: Drag (Paperback)
_Drag_ begins with three stanzas from African American lesbian poet Cheryl Clarke, announcing its context and its lineage. On the next page: no words, but the scansion notations of Clarke's stanzas. On the page after: a kind of musical score of what a voice might sound like, slipping through Clarke's lines. This is how Harris teaches us the ways to read Drag.
Smart, sexy, queer, brutal, and honest, _Drag_ is a journey in five movements, and you've got to be quick on your feet as you read. It ranges from wildly experimental "Phaneric Displays" to lyric and narrative poems like "Drive." What keeps it coherent is Harris' constant attention to how the written word/notations can evoke the voice, can evoke sounds. The concerns of the work also revolve pretty tightly: history, sex and love, social markers of race and gender, and how marked bodies survive. Its power lies partly in its refusal to be categorized, partly in the way Harris both distrusts *and* leans heavily on language and the way meaning is made. It's a book that requires and rewards multiple readings. It will set you spinning. |
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Drag by Duriel E. Harris (Paperback - January 1, 2003)
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