Inbetweenland
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.12 (813 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0982015968 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 80 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A visual artist as well as a writer, the author relies heavily on the unexpected image to chronicle the impossible journey through body, family, and history towards home. Mapping out radical trajectories through loss, violence, and queer desire, McNamara creates a luminous archive of survival and resilience in a self-destructing world. Part love song, part howl, part incantation, Inbetweenland is the first book-length collection of Jacks McNamara s poems, prose, and hybrid experiments in the neon vernacular of being alive. From the borderlands of madness to the unpredictable shape of peace, Inbetweenland bears unflinching witness to a rarely charted geography, offering the reader a resonant poetics of insurrection and grace.
Fierce and Beautiful nina A decade ago I stumbled upon Dorothy Allison's book of poetry, the women who hate me and fell in love. I wanted to crawl inside of it. I wanted to read the poems out loud and hand the book to every woman I knew. Last week I opened up Jacks McNamara's book of poetry, Inbetweenland, and I felt that same rush of feelings. This book is powerful.Every poem in this book hits hard and deep, but So Many Ways to be Beautiful is by far my favorite. Just a few days ago I found myse. Luminous, eruptive and beautifully crafted Jacks McNamara's poetry bursts with the vivid painful energy of growth. The writing is searing, lyrical, closely observed, and finely wrought. The poet's ear is attuned to the flow of nature, the staccato of urban intensity, the shifting spaces between lovers and friends, and the vastness of the inner landscape; the poet's eye misses exactly nothing. It's been a long time since I encountered so fine a work by a young poet. I am delighted.. Steven Kerry said No Lack of Passion in this Land. I do not read enough poetry to claim I am well-informed as to the distinctions between different styles. This collection often blazes, sometimes smolders, and is wonderfully rich in color, imagery, and raw emotion. I hate it when people label certain kinds of writing (often poetry) as "heavy", for that often suggests it is depressing. This book is not depressing, but it is fierce in its way; on the contrary it crackles and burns with such vivid intensity and spirit it ne
Their words stitch a quilt full of fisting, fighting, glitter, and all our secret landscapes and escape routes. Jacks' poetry reminds me what it really means to heal in the fierce, delicious, messy 'tendercomplex' way that queer survivors breathe in our bones every day. This is a fierce, fierce music. --Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, 2012 Lambda Award winner, author of Love Cake and coeditor of The Revolution Starts at HomeWhere is home, when you do not belong where you begin? When land is stolen and the diaspora is not yours to claim? How do we survive to write our lives lives that have been erased or not yet written? Poet and activist Jacks McNamara knows that the questions are more important than the answers, and their debut collection leaves us with so many beautiful, dangerous, and brave new ways of asking. A prayer and a promise, taking us home
Jacks McNamara is a genderqueer writer, artist, activist, and healer based in Oakland, CA. . Jacks was a 2012 Lambda Literary Fellow. Co-founder of The Icarus Project, an adventure in mutual aid and radical mental health support, and co-author of Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness, Jacks has facilitated workshops and performed poetry across North America and Europe