Petra Kuppers

Diver Beneath the Street (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A decaying psychogeography unfurls the landscapes of the 1967-69 Michigan Murders, the 2019 Detroit serial killer, and the COVID-19 lockdown in this visceral poetry collection. Author, performance artist, and disability culture activist Petra Kuppers dissects traces of violence in the richness of the soil while honoring lost community members. Dynamic and somatic poems traverse the realms of urban space, wild rivers, and the hinterlands of suburbia, glimpsing the decay of bodies, houses, carpets, hair, and bones by way of ecopoetry. Poems like "e;Reintegration"e; and "e;Earth Seance"e; delve into cycles of decomposition and decreasing biodiversity across the micro- and macroworlds. Others such as "e;Dancing Princesses"e; tie timeless fairy-tale tropes of violence toward women to modern murders and lived experience. Moments in lockdown are embodied through somatic exploration of nature and self in works like "e;Dear White Pine in My Garden."e; This evocative entanglement of life and death, joy and horror, natural and artificial processes and particles offers an intriguing lyrical and poetic quality as well as unique perspectives through the lenses of feminist, queer, and disability studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wayne State University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780814351123
• Artikelnr.: 72241165

Autorenporträt

Petra Kuppers is a disability culture activist and a community performance artist who uses somatics, performance, and speculative writing to engage audiences toward more socially just and enjoyable futures. She is the Anita Gonzalez Collegiate Professor of Performance Studies and Disability Culture at the University of Michigan, a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, and codirector of the somatic writing studio Turtle Disco.