C+nto : & othered poems / Joelle Taylor.

  • Taylor, Joelle
Date:
2021
  • Books

About this work

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Canto
Cunto

Description

"The female body is a political space. C+nto enters the private lives of women from the butch counterculture, telling the inside story of the protests they led in the '90s to reclaim their bodies as their own -- their difficult balance between survival and self-expression. History, magic, rebellion, party, and sermon vibrate through Joelle Taylor's cantos to uncover these underground communities forged by women. Part-memoir and part-conjecture, Taylor explores sexuality and gender in poetry that is lyrical, expansive, imagistic, epic, and intimate. C+nto is a love poem, a riot, a late night, and an honouring."-- Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

London : The Westbourne Press, 2021.

Physical description

127 pages ; 20 cm

Contributors

Notes

Alternate titles taken from page 9 and from multiple YouTube videos of author readings.

Awards note

Winner, 2021 T.S. Eliot Prize

Contents

VITRINE -- C+NTO -- Round One The Body as Battleground -- Round Two The Body as Protest -- Round Three The Body as Trespass -- Round Four The Body as Cemetery -- Round Five The Body as Backroom -- Round Six The Body as Haunted House -- Round Seven The Body as Uprising -- VITRINE REPRISE -- O, MARYVILLE -- I. Psalm -- A Lesbian Walks into a Bar -- II. Valentine -- Angel -- Dudizile -- Jack Catch -- III. Article Three -- IV. Homosapien -- The Unbelong -- Angel the destroyer -- Valentine creation myth -- Dudizile everything in its place -- V. Heaven, 1995 -- Jack Catch teaches at the old school -- Fist Fucking in the Yemen -- VI. Summer All Night Long -- VII. Angel heel boi -- Valentine snow globe -- Dudizile difficult rivers -- Jack Catch to the lighthouse -- VIII. A Woman Steps Out of Her Wound -- IX. Angel in the red corner -- Legend of the First Butch -- Dudizile the first stone -- Angel young bull -- Got a Light, Jack? -- X. The Battle of Maryville -- Black Triangle -- XI. December -- Eulogy -- XII. Butch Proverb No. 3 -- Trauma: The Opera -- Joelle Taylor Performances QR Codes.

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    History of Medicine
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ISBN

  • 9781908906489
  • 1908906480