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Gaze Back: Poems

Gaze Back: Poems

Paperback

Series: Georgia Review Books

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $21.95

ISBN10: 0820362425
ISBN13: 9780820362427
Publisher: Univ Of Georgia Pr
Published: Mar 1 2022
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

Marylyn Tan's debut volume complicates ideas of femininity, queerness, and the occult. Theoretically informed, imaginatively reckless, and politically fierce, these poems gaze back at visual arts, literature, and everyday life to present a feminine grotesque that subverts the patriarchal viewpoint that has structured these terrains of thought and life. GAZE BACK, ultimately, is an instruction book, a grimoire, a call to insurrection to wrest power back from the social structures that serve to restrict, control, and distribute it among those few privileged above the disenfranchised. It is a poetic call to arms. This book rocked Singapore literature upon its publication, winning the Singapore Literature Prize in English Poetry in 2020 and making Tan the first woman to earn the nation's premier English-language poetry prize.

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