Description
Poetry. Delving into the fissures of language as an opportunity to create something new, Rosenfield appropriates texts from various fields of knowledge (evolutionary theory, psychoanalysis, advice on the science of living, and feminist theory) to rewire ideas of authority, subjectivity and expert opinion. The resulting RE: EVOLUTION is part text-book, part poem, part song-of-science, part feminist guide-to-living. Presented alongside research and analysis from a literary critic (Sianne Ngai), a poet/academic (Diana Hamilton) and an evolutionary biologist (Jennifer Calkins), and coupled with images by poet/artist Yedda Morrison, RE: EVOLUTION prompts the question: what moves around what?
RE: EVOLUTION is published as part of the TrenchArt Tracer series, with visual art by Yedda Morrison, Susan Simpson and Ken Ehlich.
Author Bio
Originally from Southern California, Kim Rosenfield's first chapbook, Some of Us, was published by Ouija Madness Press, Los Angeles in 1982. She is the author of Two Poems (LEAVE books 1995), GOOD MORNING--MIDNIGHT-- (Roof Books, 2002, winner of Small Press Traffic's Book of the Year Award), TRĂ€MA (Krupskaya 2004), RE:EVOLUTION (Les Figues Press 2009), LIVIDITY (Les Figues Press 2012), USO: I'll Be Seeing You (Ugly Duckling Presse 2013), and Phantom Captain (Fence Books, 2023).
Her work has been included in the anthologies Bowery Women: Poems (YBK Press 2006), Gurlesque: The New Grrly, Burlesque Poetics (Saturnalia Books 2010), Against Expression (Northwestern University Press 2011), I'LL DROWN MY BOOK (Les Figues Press 2012), and The Unexpected Guest: Art, writing and thinking on hospitality (Liverpool Biennial, ART/BOOKS 2018). From 1993-1996, Rosenfield co-edited Object magazine with Robert Fitterman, and is a founding member of the artist collective, Collective Task.
Author City: BROOKLYN, NY USA