Poetry. In the de-stabilized intersection of fashion, the war on terror, and cultural constructions of the feminine, GAZE explores the resulting tensions in a series of dichotomies central to an increasingly isolate and adversarial condition: Christianity/Islam, ancient/modern, sacred/secular, sexuality/spirituality, feminism/fundamentalism, power/resistance, self/other.

"In these moments the world is given breath, heat, and voice. All at once it approaches, and the beloved's unfettered body is revealed as the antidote to tyranny." What we see and what we fail to see are constantly juxtaposed, exposing a flawed desire to "become."—Rikki Ducornet

"'Too beautiful to articulate'—dressed, undressed, terrorized, and entrancing. These unveilings, these poems, how they haunt me. Riding Angela Carter on a poetry-horse, Reed hallucinates language with certain and dissolving rhythm. GAZE at them; go blind inside this mentalist's mind. Marthe Reed is unrelenting, unrelentingly kind."—Kate Bernheimer

Author City: LAFAYETTE, LA USA

Marthe Reed's publications include Tender Box, A Wunderkammer (Lavender Ink) and two chapbooks, (em)bodied bliss and zaum alliterations (Dusie Kollektiv). Her poetry has appeared in NEW AMERICAN WRITING, Golden Handcuffs Review, New Orleans Review, How2, MiPoesias, Exquisite Corpse, and Big Bridge, and is forthcoming from Ekleksographia and FAIRY TALE REVIEW.

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