Poetry. Chantry is song. Chantry is song that exceeds song structure in all dimensions to become invocation and enchantment. From "the vessel without a cover" to "late silhouette in / blue" it refuses to be contained, as a book wants to live outside its covers. Sing this: "linger so this grace of grace," yet sing it so that "the door cracks in so many different directions." It is in these cracks, these interstices, that Elizabeth Treadwell finds and makes song, and the song exceeds and excels. Elizabeth Treadwell is the Executive Director of Small Press Traffic in San Francisco.

Chantry

Literature & Fiction

Treadwell, Elizabeth

Poetry

Chax Press

Wardolly

Poetry. "The relation of these histories and whimsies is idiosyncratic and intimate, sweet and unself-conscious, risky and vulnerable. It is also political."—Michelle Detorie "Treadwell's is a difficult but deeply rewarding poetry. It has a precision and a tenderness all of its own."—Nathan Thompson "This is a feminine poetry, marvelous, tough, and unrelenting."—Maureen Thorson "The new is not Hollywood and it is not America and it is not the founding fathers or the avant-garde who, like Jessica Alba, are made of 'lite toxicity.' There is a seductive and false new, a California of 'the naggy sunshine &amp; / the mean &amp; stupid fucks,' but there is revolution, a 'tender cocktail,' and also birth, which in all of its muddiness offers that 'the new animal is / born of the new animal.' These poems are a delicate unanesthetized surgery in no sterile, metallic arena. Treadwell does her work with steady hands but in the unsteady open, extracting what value of the future remains even in a world with the rich 'in their prissy communes,' even among the texting 'platinum herd.'"—Anne Boyer

Virginia or the mud-flap girl

Dusie Press

Poetry. With voices of joy, triumph, comaraderie and anarchy, Elizabeth Treadwell's utopian democracy opens a new door into the overlooked corners of world -- a world in which women have dignity, honor and aplomb, and where the disenfranchised have intelligence and spunk. Her use of language is nothing short of heart-stopping, and the conversations that create the polyphonies are restless, constructivist, and dream-inspiring. The stories are funny and engaging -- scenes from the barrios, psychiatric wards, dorms, small towns, cities, and grandma's houses we all know, love, and sometimes fear. Comfortable yet edgy, always utterly intelligent -- POPULACE is utterly irresistible -- Susan Smith Nash.

Populace

Avec Books

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