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- ISBN 9780811238632
- Weight: 475g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 24 Sep 2024
- Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY
“To disrupt the relationship of predator and prey, to reshape one’s relation to power, is to renovate the lived and living world,” Elizabeth Willis writes in her visionary work that delves deep into the ancient enchantments and disciplinary displays of the circus. Liontaming in America investigates the utopian aspirations fleetingly enacted in the polyamorous life of a nineteenth-century Mormon community, interweaving archival and personal threads with the histories of domestic labor, extraction economies, and the performance of family in theater, film, and everyday life.
Lines reverberate between worldliness and devotion, between Peter Pan and Close Encounters, between Paul Robeson and Maude Adams, between leaps of faith and passionate alliances, between everyday tragedy and imaginative social possibility. As Willis writes in her afterword to the book, “The repeated unmaking and remaking of America, as a concept and as an ongoing textual project, is not impossible. It is happening all the time.”
Elizabeth Willis is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Liontaming in America, a hybrid work engaged with American belief and relationship structures, theatre, activism, and film, and Alive: New and Selected Poems, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She also writes about the intersection of art and labor. Willis is the editor of the essay collection Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place. She teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
