140pp. Very Good-w/ some tanning & minute creasing on cover.

I Am the Babe of Joseph Stalin's Daughter

OWENS, Rochelle

Kulchur Foundation

Poetry. "In this new riveting long poem, Rochelle Owens shows herself once agan to be our mythographer par excellence, the inventor of the rich and strange. The germ of HERMAPHROPOETICS, DRIFTING GEOMETRIES seems to be a single photograph of 'A hermaphrodite / Captured after the siege...Seated on the stump of a tree.' But who or what is this mysterious figure 'staged and scripted from /a lost narrative'? Using ten interlocking geometric perspectives—from angle and circle to zigzag and zoom—Owens recreates her visionary tale again and again, each time making us question the previous version and arousing our longing to know more. In what siege did this man/woman participate? From where is she/he exiled and what agonies has this human spirit suffered and survived? The kaleidoscopic narrative, encompassing ceaseless struggle against the natural world as well as the full gamut of desire and defeat, is mesmerizing in its delicate repetitions and variations, the whole tale rendered in condensed and oblique linear units. This is a bravura performance by one of our most original and daring poets."—Marjorie Perloff

Hermaphropoetics, Drifting Geometries

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Singing Horse Press

W.C. Fields in French Light: Poems

Contact II Pubns

Rubbed Stones: Collected Poems, 1960-1990

Texture Press

Poetry. A survey of the life's work of one of America's most original avant-garde poets and playwrights."Rochelle Owens's writing is sui generis, brilliantly inventive, immensely learned, sophisticated, and witty in its conceits. She is, in many ways, a proto-language poet, her marked ellipses, syntactic oddities, and dense and clashing verbal surfaces. Hers is a universe of stark gesture, lightning flash, and judgment, a poetic microstructure in its superb modulations of rhythms and internal rhymes, its ironies and paradoxes. In its uncompromising savagery, its passionate rejection of sentimentality, Owens's lyric voice is unique among contemporary poets. An astonishing body of work."—Marjorie Perloff

Out of Ur: New & Selected Poems 1961-2012

Shearsman Books

Poetry. "Owens' theme is that of violation - the violation of one person's space by those who want to control or absorb it, who will not let it be...Owens does not shrink from the violence and horror she finds everywhere around her and which she projects back, most convincingly, into what was supposed to be, according to Burckhardt and Berenson, the ordered and measured world of Renaissance Florence. [Owens'] is a universe of stark gesture, lightning flash, and uncompromising judgment: it is imperative, in her poetic world, to face up to the horror, even as the point of view is flexible enough to avoid all dogmatism" - from Marjorie Perloff's introduction.

Luca: Discourse on Life and Death

Junction Press

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