Olivia Cronk is the author of WOMONSTER (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2020), LOUISE AND LOUISE (The Lettered Streets Press, 2016) and SKIN HORSE (Action Books, 2012). With Philip Sorenson, she edits The Journal Petra.
Poetry. Drama. Hybrid. LOUISE AND LOUISE AND LOUISE is made up of four long poems that veer into and blur the genres of horror, soap opera, fantasy, and noir. It's beautiful and repulsive, a train barrelling off the tracks towards you, "a horse of a...
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Poetry. Like a secret date with Lizzie Borden, these moody lyrics thrill as they incriminate. SKIN HORSE shows that history is a crime scene, and that crime is theatrical, rife with costumes, masks, hats, props, weapons, scripts, dialogue, wooden sc...
Poetry. Women's Studies. Taking the form of two long poems, "Interro-Porn" and "Chenille," WOMONSTER explores the often monstrous and buffoonish impossibility of a coherent self, even as its speakers take great pleasure in the performance of selves....