Gossamurmur

Anne Waldman

Gossamurmur
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc
Country
United States
Published
30 April 2013
Pages
160
ISBN
9780143123088

Gossamurmur

Anne Waldman

A fascinating new work from an internationally renowned poet

Acclaimed for her visionary, incantatory verse and her experimental ethos, Anne Waldman’s newest book-length poem is an allegory of a radical spirit in lockdown, dominated by Deciders and Imposters who threaten the future of poetry and its archive. A doppelganger nightmare ensues: the imposter Anne is a succubus, and the original Anne has to break free from a metaphorical castle of torture and psychological domination. There are travels through Vedic cosmology and ancient Japan before resolution on a treeless tundra, where fragile life forms struggle to survive. Waldman’s oracular poem is a witty meditation on identity theft and a searing plea for the primacy of imagination and for collective sanity in our provocative yet precarious time.

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