There have been many iterations of the Joan of Arc story: "testimonies," books, and films have attempted to capture the drama of one of history's most famous gender warriors. But few, if any, have been undertaken by an author who met her subject matter with such recognition and insight, a fellow warrior, a rebel in kind. kari edwards, a transgender activist and key figure in the Bay Area experimental writing scene of the late 1990s and early 2000s, was provocative and prescient in her concern for the way that language inflects, inflicts, and regulates gender norms. Her persistent efforts to break linguistic binaries and barriers have given her texts an ongoing urgency after her untimely death in 2006.This book brings to life an important document discovered in the late poet's archive at the Poetry Collection at the University of Buffalo. The several notebooks and partial typescript (as well as various plans and notes) of edwards' unfinished manuscript, uncovered by Tina Zigon, offer an intriguing glimpse of a major new direction in edwards' work, one in which her avant-garde instincts are channeled through rigorous research on this medieval figure. In this retelling - better to say "remixing" - of Joan of Arc's fateful trial and martyrdom, we find the major theme so richly laced throughout edwards' oeuvre: the courageous (but also depressingly mundane) struggle against the stifling regulation of language, appearance, and norms. edwards's Joan of Arc, even in its incomplete and abbreviated form (which Zigon calls a "possible version" of edwards's manuscript), offers an exciting engagement with one of the medieval period's most challenging and mysterious figures.

doNrm'-la-pusl: part of the joan of arc project

Literature & Fiction

Edwards, Kari

Poetry

Peanut Books

Poetry. LGBT Studies. "This writing is the New Brave. Few writers have so given in to the entropic forces that disentangle our bodies in the end, while at the same time furiously pooling social content into observable patterns. And there are thousands! Millions! Billions! In biological systems, DNA nucleotides are linked by enzymes in order to make long, chainlike, polynucleotides of defined sequence. In writing, the sub-social is linked by signs that make ringlets of undefined sequence. Only we can make think to make thought from it. It cannot be conceived of in advance. It cannot be found on the web. No se vende ni se compra. edwards' radical neo-communitarian impulse is something that's blood-borne, but not bloody, something that's keen &amp; observant, but not oculocentric. Like Antonin Artaud, edwards sought to make Writing = Life"--Rodrigo Toscano. Venn Diagram Productions is the collaborative intersection between Belladonna Books and Litmus Press. This imprint actualizes our mutual commitment to publishing innovative, cross-genre, multicultural, feminist and queer work by writers and artists working beyond and between borders.

Bharat jiva

Litmus Press/Belladonna*

Poetry. Women's Studies. LGBT Studies. Hybrid Genre. Transgender Studies. Winner of the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry. Part prose poem, part disruptive narrative, succubus in my pocket is a posthumous masterpiece of textual flux and cultural critique from pathbreaking trans woman poet kari edwards. The author described it as a "troubling of the habitual life story at the edge of the recognizable." "kari edwards's SUCCUBUS IN MY POCKET is a masterwork against mastering, a tarrying recursive, fretting over how to write from life when life is so relentlessly displaced by its commodity form, a palinode to identity from its extimite extrusions, sloughing on and off simulacra, flaying the skim off 'events,' relooping seriality and tracing narrative's affective ruses and too predictable disappointments. Talking to the taxman and the war machine and sex gender and the symbolic about poetry while turning a trick or laying down to hallucinate a line of flight rather than consolidate a happy story we might now call homonormativity or neoliberalism or white supremacy, SUCCUBUS is a most delicate and pissed and sad inhabitation of the available options and of their exorbitantly vital refusal."—Trish Salah

succubus in my pocket

EOAGH Books

Practical Daily Habits: A Simple Guide for Living is designed to make you think of the little things you do each day in life that makes you who you are. These are simple reminders that the day to day actions you exercise may be more important to becoming the person you want to be. If you pay attention to the little things each day you will learn that the little things with time, becomes the big things. Your life and your story are complex, so at the end, you don't want it to be broken down to mere soundbites of educational background, career titles, marriages, children. You want your life to matter to not only you but those around you. How would you accomplish this? The simple but practical suggestions in this book will remind you to be an active participant in your own life. People create educational, career, and financial blueprints in life, but creating a blueprint to be the person you want to become is often overlooked or neglected. You need to not only hold yourself accountable for your daily actions but also, more importantly, realize that you are part of a bigger picture that includes others.

Practical Daily Habits: A Simple Guide for Living

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

Advanced Publishing LLC

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doNrm'-la-pusl: part of the joan of arc project

Bharat jiva

succubus in my pocket

Practical Daily Habits: A Simple Guide for Living