Silent Refusal: Essays on Contemporary Feminist Writing
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Silent Refusal: Essays on Contemporary Feminist Writing by Kristina Marie Darling
The essay collection explores the idea of difficulty in contemporary women's poetry. In other words, what motivates writers to create purposefully difficult texts? In what ways is textual difficulty politically charged? As Darling explores these questions, her essays consider recent poetry and hybrid work from women, non-binary writers, and writers of color. Darling argues that textual difficulty constitutes a provocative reversal of power, in which writers from historically marginalized groups within society can decide who is allowed into the imaginative terrain they have created. In constructing this argument, Darling shows the full range and artistic possibilities inherent in contemporary texts that foreground textual difficulty as an aesthetic gesture.
Kristina Marie Darling is the author of thirty-four books, including Look to Your Left: A Feminist Poetics of Spectacle and DARK HORSE: Poems. She currently serves as editor-in-chief of Tupelo Press and Tupelo Quarterly, an opinion columnist at The Los Angeles Review of Books, a staff blogger at the Kenyon Review, a contributing writer at Publishers Weekly, and a freelance book critic at the New York Times Book Review.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781939568410 |
| ISBN 10 | 1939568412 |
| Title | Silent Refusal: Essays on Contemporary Feminist Writing |
| Author | Kristina Marie Darling |
| Series | Undercurrents |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Black Ocean |
| Year published | 2022-01-27 |
| Number of pages | 150 |
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