the she said dialogues: flesh memory

Author:   Akilah Oliver ,  Tracie Morris
Publisher:   Nightboat Books
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Pages:   112
Publication Date:   18 February 2021
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*Winner of PEN Beyond Margins Award, for the she said dialogues: flesh memory *Taught at Pratt Institute, Eugene Lang College (The New School), Naropa University (Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics), The Poetry Project *Artist-in-residence at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Los Angeles *Curator of the Poetry Project’s Monday Night Reading Series *Member of the Belladonna* Collaborative. *Started LINKS Community Network to fight for universal healthcare in US *Collaborated with a variety of artists and musicians, including Tyler Burba, Anne Waldman, Rasul Siddik, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, and Ambrose Bye *Co-founder of Sacred Naked Nature Girls.

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Author:   Akilah Oliver ,  Tracie Morris
Publisher:   Nightboat Books
Imprint:   Nightboat Books
ISBN:  

9781643620343


ISBN 10:   1643620347
Pages:   112
Publication Date:   18 February 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Akilah Oliver's dialogues remind me of a series of containers frantically held and I'm watching her meanings slosh. I'm constantly surprised by her poems, pieces. They unloose every handle I make for them. Rhythms settle and rule. Quirky things come in: general hospital, junk antiques, 1948...stuff bobs in her solution, but it's wonderous finally, eventually ultimately what language can be in the thrall of a compassionate and intricate sprit. And the world changes around me because I know something new. Her poems are erotic which is beside the point. The point is that language is erotic. Always was. In the midst of a beautiful surging moment of reading and writing, a voice bursts out of the foam, this tough new Venus. She's commanding and dangerous. Awake and alive. -Eileen Myles From multiple and shifting subject positions, Akilah Oliver surveys the complex terrain of identity and sexuality with a concise intellectually engaged poetic language. As her sacred duty, she bares the naked truth of the double-edged poet's word. This bolder sister outsider brings the sound of her distinct dream to the fanfare for the next millennium. -Harryette Mullen


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Akilah Oliver was born in St. Louis and grew up in Los Angeles. She was the author of two books of poetry: A Toast in the House of Friends (2009) and the she said dialogues: flesh memory (1999), which received a PEN Beyond Margins award. Her chapbooks include A Collection of Objects (2010), a(A)ugust (2007), The Putterer’s Notebook (2006), and An Arriving Guard of Angels, Thusly Coming to Greet (2004). Oliver collaborated with a range of artists and musicians, such Tyler Burba, Anne Waldman, and Rasul Siddik; a notable performer, Oliver founded the feminist performance collective Sacred Naked Nature Girls in the 1990s. She was a member of the Belladonna* collaborative and a PhD candidate at the European Graduate School. Oliver lived for many years in Boulder, Colorado, where she taught at the Naropa Institute’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. At the time of her death, she was a professor in the Humanities and Media Studies Department at the Pratt Institute in New York City. A memorial reading in honor of Oliver’s contributions to numerous poetry communities was held at the Poetry Project in June 2011. Akilah was the mother of Oluchi McDonald who predeceased her on March 13, 2003.

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