Cruel Futures
January 25, 2018
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Publisher |
City Lights Publishers |
ISBN |
978-0872867581 |
Release Date |
2018-04-17 |
Author |
Carmen Giménez Smith |
Summary |
Cruel Futures, the fifth collection from Latinx feminista Carmen Giménez Smith, is a witchy confessional and wildly imagistic volume that examines subjects as divergent as Alzheimer’s, Medusa, mumblecore, and mental illness in sharp-witted, taut poems dense with song. Chronicling life on an endangered planet, in a country on the precipice of profound change compelled by a media machine that produces our realities, the book is a high-energy analysis of popular culture, as well as an exploration of the many social roles that women occupy as mother, daughter, lover, and the resulting struggle to maintain personhood — all in a late capitalist America. Giménez Smith deploys humor while depicting the quotidian and its function as sacrament. |