"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us." Franz Kafka
For any author who would like his/her book to be reviewed, contact me. Poetry books too are solicited for reviewing. However, there are some genres I tend to avoid. Feel free to ask me.
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I must mention here that I read at my own pace and depending on my mood. Don't ask me to hurry.
The Ravenous Audience by Kate Durbin
Kate Durbin's debut volume is not for the weak of gut. Cum, blood, vomit, and other bodily juices slop off the page in a grotesque reanimation of history and art's female villains and s/heroes. Unlike other feminist revisionist texts, The Ravenous Audience refuses to rescue the misunderstood bitches of our cultural past, instead viscerally imposing the scope of their bodily and existential horrors--including each woman's culpability. Durbin even throws the reader, and the poet, into the cauldron. Complicating all easy notions of responsibility, she points the finger in every direction possible--before biting it clean.
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5 comments:
Interesting - not sure it's for me, though.
Interesting find. Mine are at The Crowded Leaf.
Oh my gosh, sounds intense!
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Wow, sounds like a heavy read.
Happy Friday!
Wow, I don't know if that one is for me!!! But, I'll look forward to what you think of it after you've read it (or have you read it already?)
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