Furniture Music

Gail Scott

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Wave Books
08 February 2024

Diaries, letters & journals; Anthologies (non-poetry); Gender studies: women; Gender studies: transsexuals & hermaphroditism

InFurniture Music, MontreallegendGail Scott chronicles her years in Lower Manhattan during the Obama era, in a community of poets at the junction between formally radical and political art.

Immersing herself in a New York topography that includes St. Mark's Poetry Project and the Bowery Poetry Club, Scott writes from a 'Northern' awareness that is both immediate and inquisitive, from Obama's election to Occupy Wall Street and Hurricane Sandy.

Here, readers are situated in conversations around citizenship, gender performance, class, race, feminism, and what it means to writenow.

And the author is less a single voice than an assembler, ventriloquizing not only present voices but also a host of earlier writers and philosophers, notably, Gertrude Stein, Viktor Shklovsky, Walter Benjamin. The result is a staggering work of insight and hope during a critical time in American politics and art.

By: Gail Scott
Imprint: Wave Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 152mm, Width: 215mm, Spine: 12mm
ISBN: 9781950268863
ISBN 10: 1950268861
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 08 February 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gail Scottis the author ofPermanent Revolution(Book*Hug Press, 2021), which was a finalist for the2021 Grand Prix du livre de Montreal,Spare Parts(Coach House, 1981),Heroine(Coach House, 1987, re-issued in 2019 with an introduction by Eileen Myles by Nightboat),Main Brides(Talonbooks, 1993),My Paris(Dalkey Archive, 1999),Spare Parts Plus Two(Coach House, 2002), andThe Obituary(Coach House, 2010; Nightboat 2012). Her essays are collected inSpaces Like Stairs(Womens Press, 1989) and inLa Thorie, un dimanche(1988) which was translated into English asTheory, A Sunday(Belladonna, 2013). Scott is co-editor of the New Narrative anthology:Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative(Coach House, 2004). Her translation of Michael Delisle'sLe dsarroi du matelotwas shortlisted for a 2001 Governor General's Literary Award.

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Furniture Music

Gail Scott

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