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“While marriage may be taking no prisoners in this collection, it’s clear that the union of Darling and Guess was a perfect one.  They produced a stunning, vivid, and emotionally visceral feminist rumination.  They take tremendous formal risks in the construction of this book, and all thos... Read More about X Marks the Dress: A Registry

What motivates writers to create purposefully difficult texts? In what ways is textual difficulty politically charged? In this collection of smart and accessible essays, Kristina Marie Darling seeks to answer these questions by delving deeply into the idea of difficulty in contemporary women's poetr... Read More about Silent Refusal: Essays on Contemporary Feminist Writing: Essays on Contemporary Feminist Writing (Undercurrents)

"What I want is the intimacy of anonymous encounters within the text itself, and yet to be effaced and revealed, even and especially by my own authorial departure. And it would take the form of a repetition or a reversal; a re: verse in which we correspond lyrically; a re: verse in which our corresp... Read More about re: Verses

"The lineage of poetic experimentation with footnotes and other paratexts is long and varied, yet few have explored these formal possibilities with as much intellectual depth and emotional resonance as Kristina Marie Darling. Fortress continues Darling's investigation into the print page as a kind o... Read More about Fortress

The essays in the collection examine, from a variety of perspectives and conceptual standpoints, the ways performative language in contemporary poetry can be politically charged. The poetic text, then, becomes a spectacle, which ultimately renegotiates the power dynamics implicit in the simple act o... Read More about Look to Your Left: A Feminist Poetics of Spectacle (Akron Contemporary Poetics)

The essays in this collection use a wide range of contemporary experimental texts as a point of entry to a single question: Is there a uniquely female variety of sorrow? This book does not provide a clean answer, but rather, an ongoing effort to refine the question. These essays ask what it means to... Read More about In the Room of Persistent Sorry