LEADER 03033nam 2200433 450 001 9910795194803321 005 20230124201945.0 010 $a0-8093-3663-4 035 $a(CKB)4340000000265373 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5351445 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000265373 100 $a20180509d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSpitting image /$fpoems by Kara van de Graaf 210 1$aCarbondale :$cCrab Orchard Review & Southern Illinois University Press,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (82 pages) 225 1 $aCrab Orchard Series in Poetry 311 $a0-8093-3662-6 330 $a"Kara van de Graaf's debut collection heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary poetry. Through poems that balance personal recollection with ekphrasis, science, and meditation, Van de Graaf searches for answers in the fluctuating relationship between the body and the self. Taking as its primary theme the exploration of the female body in current culture, Spitting Image considers the myriad intersections of the body and gender, desire, relationships, and otherness. Van de Graaf interrogates underrepresented elements of the female experience, especially the physical, rhetorical, and aesthetic limitations of fatness in poetry and other arts. She then complicates those limitations through her use of innovative forms and imaginative verse, implicitly calling for poetry to engage with the female form in fresh ways. Throughout, Van de Graaf's poems ask: In a time where we have more agency to define ourselves than ever before, what barriers still remain? What do our bodies mean to who we are? At turns oblique and direct, Van de Graaf's poems strive to create space for themselves not only in the field of contemporary poetry but also in a larger world that has been prone to ignoring or shaming women for their bodies. That these poems succeed on both counts is a testament to this remarkable new poet, who claims "That millimeter of space that means / all of us are apart, that means / we can never really touch / anything... Yes, I want that, too.""--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"Spitting Image explores how fatness situates the female body in contemporary culture. Poems in this collection often consider the intersection of the body and gender, desire, relationships, and otherness"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aCrab Orchard award series in poetry. 606 $aPOETRY / American / General$2bisacsh 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies$2bisacsh 615 7$aPOETRY / American / General. 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. 676 $a811/.6 686 $aPOE005010$aSOC028000$2bisacsh 700 $aVan de Graaf$b Kara$01477213 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795194803321 996 $aSpitting image$93692291 997 $aUNINA