Positions of the Sun (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780998843902)

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. POSITIONS OF THE SUN is a sometimes melancholy, sometimes militant cross-genre experiment, combining elements of (largely non-narrative) fiction, with those of local journalism, and of cultural and literary criticism. Its twenty-six interlocking essays with characters (plus a Coda) explore the mid-2000s financial crisis, the spread of neoliberalism, and attempts by activists and artists to counter it, through the movements and daily lives of a wide-ranging cast of characters located in the Bay Area. In POSITIONS, Hejinian plays the bricoleur, bringing together whatever's needed in her approach to the subject, whether it's the paratactic tactics of poetry, scholarship's critical patchwork, or characters set in time that evokes but frustrates narrative. POSITIONS OF THE SUN is the second work in Belladonna*'s Germinal Texts Series, which seeks to trace feminist avant-garde histories and the poetic lineages they produce.

Author: Lyn Hejinian
ISBN-10: 0998843903
ISBN-13: 9780998843902
Publisher: Belladonna*
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2018
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/15/2018