Gurlesque: the new grrly, grotesque, burlesque poetics brings together eighteen poets of wide-ranging backgrounds, united in their ability to push the aesthetic envelope through radical, femme, Third Wave strategies, and pairs them with visual artists who do the same. At the turn of the millennium, we are witnessing the emergence of a vital--perhaps viral--new strain of female poetics: the "Gurlesque," a term that describes writers who perform femininity in their poems in a campy or overtly mocking manner, risking the grotesque to shake the foundations of acceptable female behavior and language. Built from the bric-a-brac of girl culture, these works charm and repel: this work is fun, subversive, and important. Poets include Brenda Coultas, Brenda Shaghnessy, Cathy Park Hong, Matthea Harvey, and Sarah Vap.
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"I like these dirty poems." --Eileen Myles
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"'It is not a movement, or a camp or a clique.' So writes Arielle Greenberg in her introduction to the phenomenon now to be known as 'the Gurlesque.' So what is it? Think theory in fishnets, think beyond camp, think cute with claws, Plath with humor, passivity without pathos, think pink with a gun. Gurlesque is a sensibility and a style, a walking panic attack, a threat and a promise. Don't just read this book, ingest it, become it, perform it!" (Judith Jack Halberstam )
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A solid and very highly recommended read for any poetry reader or women's studies reader
May 4, 2010
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Just because you mock it doesn't mean you don't respect it. "Gurlesque: The New Grrls, grotesque, burlesque poetics" Is a collection of poems, short plays and stories as eighteen female writers come together under one cover and provide a humorous, insightful book that is by no means lady like but is none the less valuable and insightful. "Gurlesque" is a solid and very highly recommended read for any poetry reader or women's studies reader.
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The combination of Greenberg's introduction/discussion of the Gurlesque and the collection of works from contemporary writers is highly stimulating. Nice range of creative work as well.
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