Are You Judging Me Yet?
Poetry and Everyday Sexism
Seiten
2023
Seren (Verlag)
978-1-78172-687-7 (ISBN)
Seren (Verlag)
978-1-78172-687-7 (ISBN)
In five 'lyric essays' prize-winning poet Kim Moore negotiates being a woman poet and public performer. Encouraged by the #Metoo movement and drawing on her personal experiences, she challenges objectification and lazy conventional assumptions, and advises on surviving twitter storms and bringing about change. An important book whose time has come.
This collection of lyric essays by award-winning poet Kim Moore explore the dynamics of performing poetry as a female poet – confronting the implications of being a female on public display, with the connotations of sexual objectification, in a context that traditionally disregards the body. Kim states “With the strides and gains made through the #MeToo movement, I believe the time is right for a book like this to make an impact. As a female poet, I know there is a need for such a book to examine the intersection between writing, performing, feminism and sexism. I wish this book had been written when I first started working as a freelance writer and I’ve had many conversations with other female poets who have also confirmed my thinking – that female poets are navigating these things regularly, and yet nobody is really writing or talking about them.”
The book draws on her experiences of writing and performing the poems in her second collection All the Men I Never Married. It is a balance of memoir, academic treatise and poetry, though the author’s emphasis is on writing in a popular way and making the subject accessible to a wide audience. To achieve this her models have been Maggie Nelson’s Bluets, Claudia Rankine’s Citizen and Sarah Ahmed’s Living a Feminist Life.
The book’s subjects include heckling at poetry readings and other interactions; problems with the ‘male gaze’ and what the ‘female gaze’ might look like in poetry; ‘guilty for being a man’: how guilt can be useful if it can bring about change; how writing poetry about sexism can shed add meaning to the term; the objectification of men and women, and ‘bad faith’ arguments.
This collection of lyric essays by award-winning poet Kim Moore explore the dynamics of performing poetry as a female poet – confronting the implications of being a female on public display, with the connotations of sexual objectification, in a context that traditionally disregards the body. Kim states “With the strides and gains made through the #MeToo movement, I believe the time is right for a book like this to make an impact. As a female poet, I know there is a need for such a book to examine the intersection between writing, performing, feminism and sexism. I wish this book had been written when I first started working as a freelance writer and I’ve had many conversations with other female poets who have also confirmed my thinking – that female poets are navigating these things regularly, and yet nobody is really writing or talking about them.”
The book draws on her experiences of writing and performing the poems in her second collection All the Men I Never Married. It is a balance of memoir, academic treatise and poetry, though the author’s emphasis is on writing in a popular way and making the subject accessible to a wide audience. To achieve this her models have been Maggie Nelson’s Bluets, Claudia Rankine’s Citizen and Sarah Ahmed’s Living a Feminist Life.
The book’s subjects include heckling at poetry readings and other interactions; problems with the ‘male gaze’ and what the ‘female gaze’ might look like in poetry; ‘guilty for being a man’: how guilt can be useful if it can bring about change; how writing poetry about sexism can shed add meaning to the term; the objectification of men and women, and ‘bad faith’ arguments.
Kim Moore was born in Leicester and lives and works in Cumbria. Her first full length collection (Seren) The Art of Falling won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. She also won a New Writing North Award in 2014, an Eric Gregory Award in 2011 and the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2012. Her second collection, All the Men I Never Married has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize. A teacher and facilitator of poetry, she has been a judge for the National Poetry Competition and the Forward Prize. Kim Moore is also the founder and organiser of the Kendal Poetry Festival. She has a doctorate in Poetry and Everyday Sexism from Manchester Metropolitan University.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.03.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Bridgend |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 135 x 208 mm |
| Gewicht | 400 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78172-687-6 / 1781726876 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78172-687-7 / 9781781726877 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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