Description
Poetry. Women's Studies. California Interest. AFTER-CAVE is the narration of "an adolescent female who may or may not be human," an odyssey feral, feminist, and ecopoetical. More pressing than hunger for this speaker is the need to know what "cruelty" means and how one might live in its absence. In this way, AFTER-CAVE is a book about the impossible and how to make it hospitable, and thereby prepare oneself to meet one's friends: human, animal, the always alive and the already dead. Using language that moves over the speaker like weather systems and migratory birds, troubling notions of linear time and traversing the spaces of human-made and "natural" disaster, Detorie in this first book introduces us to the distinction between a state of being and an act of being.
Author Bio
Michelle Detorie lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she edits Hex Presse and coordinates the Writing Center at Santa Barbara City College. She is the author of numerous chapbooks including Fur Birds (Insert Press), How Hate Got Hand (eohippus labs), and Bellum Letters (Dusie). In 2007, Michelle was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship, and in 2010 she won a direct-to-artist grant from the Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative for her public art project, The Poetry Booth. AFTER-CAVE (Ahsahta Press) is her first full-length collection.
Author City: SANTA BARBARA, CA USA