Fast Speaking Woman - Chants and Essays

Poetry. This twentieth anniversary expanded edition adds twenty poems to this collection focusing a lifelong engagement with chant structures/forms as central to contemporary performative poetry. Waldman's poetry takes the form of spells, invocations, laments, and ritual rants, combining magic and ecstasy with the power of the spoken word. Waldman says of her work: "The poem is a textured energy field or modal structure. The poems for performance seem to manifest as psychological states of mind. They come together in a mental, physical, and emotional form, making their particular demands on my voice and body. I am the 'energumen.' The poem is the experience. The text also includes three essays on the importance of oral traditions within written and spoken poetry.

Summary

Spells, invocations, laments, and ritual rants. 'One of the fastest, wisest women to run with the wolves in some time.'— New York Times

Product details

• Authors: Anne Waldman
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1996
• EAN: 9780872863163
• ISBN: 978-0-87286-316-3
• No. of pages: 159
• Dimensions: 124 mm x 158 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 152 g
• Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series; Pocket Poets Series; Pocket Poets; Pocket Poets Series; City Lights Pocket Poets Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / Women Authors, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Places