Description
Poetry. "Antigone enters. Pesticides, eco-cide, a guiding conversation with Leslie Scalapino and the beloved dead. The drone poem and the brain-body of the dancer. Brenda Iijima gets at the horror of our capitalist daily: the nation as prison-industrial complex, flickering beneath an alluring scrim of chemically-bright lawns and Mountain Dew. Her poetry pierces the veil, and this dense, velvety and deeply charged writing is a timely call and warning: also a furnace of the imagination. It 'plunges the brain into darkness where it doesn't fester'."—Lauren Levin
Author Bio
Brenda Iijima's involvements occur at the intersections and mutations of poetry, research movement, visual arts, floral and faunal studies and ecological sociology. She is the author of seven full-length collections of poetry, including REMEMBERING ANIMALS (Nightboat Books, 2016), EARLY LINOLEUM (Counterpath Press, 2015), IF NOT METAMORPHIC (Ahsahta Press, 2010), and AROUND SEA (O Books, 2004), as well as numerous chapbooks and artist's books. Iijima is the editor of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, located in Brooklyn, NY, and she is also the editor of the ECO LANGUAGE READER (Nightboat Books, 2010).
Author City: BROOKLYN, NY USA