Description
Poetry. Women's Studies. ASTROBOLISM looks to distill the relations between private and public happenings on a consistently feminist register. Crumpacker is a poet seeking to clarify political concerns, to tenderly prod the damage we live in and around, the beauties we take for granted, the ways our physical selves smudge into porous damaging/nourishing communal entities.
"When Caroline Crumpacker announces, 'I give to thee this world of mine. Undone... Redone...' believe her. Her poetic interrogations of corporeality blast narrative pieties. Everything you thought you knew multiplies. These poems reconfigure sensation and understanding so that we can recognize more of our modular reactions to the world. Read her and thank her."—G.E. Patterson
Author Bio
Caroline Crumpacker lives in Red Hook, NY. A bit further upstate, she runs The Millay Colony for the Arts, an artists' residency program and arts center. Caroline was a founding Poetry Editor of Fence magazine, an editor of the French/American online magazine DoubleChange, and a contributing editor for Circumference magazine. She is currently a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative. She has published the chapbooks Recherche Theories (Etherdome Press, 2010), The Institution in Her Twilight (Dusie Kollectiv, 2011) and Upon Nostalgia (Belladonna*, 2011). Her poetry, translations, essays, and reviews have also appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies including The Talisman Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Poetry (Talisman, 2008); American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics (Wesleyan University Press, 2007); Not For Mothers Only (Fence Books, 2007); and Love Poems by Younger American Poets (Verse Press, 2004).
Author City: RED HOOK, NY USA