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Fast Speaking Woman
Anne Waldman
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Description for Fast Speaking Woman
Paperback. Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series. Num Pages: 159 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 124 x 12. Weight in Grams: 152.
Anne Waldman takes the opportunity with this twentieth-anniversary expanded edition to add twenty poems to this collection that brings into focus her lifelong engagement with Chant as central to contemporary performative poetry. Here are spells, invocations, laments, ritual rants. Archaic beliefs in magic and ecstasy meet current notions of the power of the spoken word. Waldman writes, The poem is a textured energy field or modal structure. The poems for performance seem to manifest as psychological states of mind. They come together in a mental, verbal, physical, and emotional form, making their particular demands on my ... Read more
Anne Waldman takes the opportunity with this twentieth-anniversary expanded edition to add twenty poems to this collection that brings into focus her lifelong engagement with Chant as central to contemporary performative poetry. Here are spells, invocations, laments, ritual rants. Archaic beliefs in magic and ecstasy meet current notions of the power of the spoken word. Waldman writes, The poem is a textured energy field or modal structure. The poems for performance seem to manifest as psychological states of mind. They come together in a mental, verbal, physical, and emotional form, making their particular demands on my ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
City Lights Books United States
Number of pages
152
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Series
City Lights Pocket Poets Series
Condition
New
Weight
151g
Number of Pages
159
Place of Publication
Monroe, OR, United States
ISBN
9780872863163
SKU
V9780872863163
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99-15
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