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from: Seal Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.540809287
EAN: 9781580052214
ISBN: 1580052215
Label: Seal Press
Manufacturer: Seal Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: September 28, 2007
Publisher: Seal Press
Sales Rank: 354830
Studio: Seal Press
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Female spoken word artists have become the spokeswomen for a new generation. This demanding oral poetry of the early 21st century has defined a vanguard of lithely muscled voices; women who think and act decisively to create their distinctive and desperately earned realities. The combination of the eminent slam movement and the upsurge of bold underground feminism has created a unique pool of women who verbally challenge society on all fronts.
Editor Alix Olson (internationally touring spoken word artist-activist) brought together a variety of astounding spoken word artists for Word Warriors. Included in this collection are Patricia Smith and Eileen Myles, two of our most formidable spoken-word foremothers, Tony-award winners Sarah Jones, Suheir Hammad and Staceyann Chin, recording artists Bitch and Lynn Breedlove from the dyke-punk band Tribe 8, award-winning writer Michelle Tea, and many more. These women join other amazing artists from many different backgrounds to create Word Warriors, a powerful and comprehensive collection of work from the best and brightest female spoken word artists today.
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Rating: - revolution-evolution
This book is inspiring poetry and enlightening personal essays by each amazing author. "Word Warriors" is a must read for every woman/daughter/mother/sister/friend. The poetry shines with clarity/panache/punch and all the ethereal beauty of "The Way Girls Word".
Applause to Seal Press, the editors and visionaries who have presented not only a subculture of poetic performance but the power of transformation each author encountered by bringing their art to the public.
Rating: - A Rock Concert on the Page
I wish that the poets had released a cd with this book to show the aurel beauty that each poet brings to her work. Last night I attended a reading in San Francisco, and I expected it to be good, however each of the women reading astonished me with her honesty, humor, anger, compassion...Each of these women has worked for years to arrive at the synthesis of grace and fire that more ordinary mortals scribbling in their diaries might only aspire toward.
In the Q&A session afterwards, ... Read More
Rating: - Wonderful Collection!
Word Warriors is a beautiful and comprehensive collection. I am currently using it in my Freshman comp. class and the students are responding to the poetry with delight and enthusiasm!
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