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Buffalo girl
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Buffalo girl (Compilation)
Title
Buffalo girl / Jessica Q. Stark.
ISBN
9781950774883
1950774880
9781950774890
Edition
First edition.
Publication
Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, Ltd., 2023.
Copyright Notice Date
2023
Physical Description
126 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Summary
"In these hybrid poems, Jessica Q. Stark explores her mother's fraught immigration to the United States from Vietnam at the end of war through the lens of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale. Told through personal, national, and cultural histories, Buffalo Girl is a feminist indictment of the violence used to define and control women's bodies. Interspersed throughout this hybrid work are a series of collaged photographs, featuring Stark's mother's black-and-white photography from Vietnam beautifully and hauntingly layered over various natural landscapes - lush tropical plants, dense forests, pockets of wildflowers. Several illustrations from old Red Riding Hood children's books can also be found embedded into these pieces. Juxtaposing the moral implications of Little Red Riding Hood with her mother's photography, Stark creates an image-text conversation that attends to the wolves lurking in the forests of our everyday lives. Opening the whispered frames around sexuality and sex work, immersed in the unflattering symptoms of survival, Buffalo Girl burgeons with matrilineal love and corporeal rage while censuring the white gaze and the violence enacted through the English language. Here is an inversion of diasporic victimhood. Here is an unwavering attention to the burdens suffered by the women of this world. Here is a reimagination, a reclamation, a way out of the woods"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Stark, Jessica Q. Buffalo girl (Compilation). Buffalo girl. First edition. Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, Ltd., 2023
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 29, 2023
Series
American poets continuum series ; no. 199
Contents
Machine generated contents note: One. Phylogenetics
The Wild Water Buffalo
The Old Man in the Tree
Little Red Riding Hood
Impact Sport
Ballad of the Red Wisteria
Little Red Riding Hood
The Stony Lake
Little Red Riding Hood
The Light of the Moon
Hungry Poem
Hungry Poem
The Tale of the Tiger-Women
The One in Which the Wolf Wins
Con Cao Cao
On Passing
Two. Little Red Hat: An Intermission
Red Walks Outside and Takes Into Account the Trees Before the Flowers
Red Encounters a Stray Bullet at the Marketplace
A Sleep Like Smile
A Wolf Promises Happiness, or Still Life as a Fruit Basket
Inviting a Wolf into Her Father's Bed
Red as Brief Ecstasy
Linh Delivers a Whisper, or Birds Never Undo their Own Nests
Why Are You So Sad, Red?
Hungry Poem in the Language of the Wolf
Little Red Hood
Three. Little Red Cap
Kleptomania, 1991
Kleptomania, 1993
Kleptomania, 2023
Kleptomania, 1992
Little Red Riding Hood
Buffalo Girl
Catalogue of Random Acts of Violence
In Earnest, She Replied
The Woods
The Grandmother
Poem in Which I Narrowly Escape My Birth
Madame Nhu's Ao Dai 1946
Kleptomania, 1978: To Know and Laugh At the New Country
New World Ghost Story
The Furies
Catalogue of Random Acts of Violence
Hungry Poem with Laughter Coming from an Unknown Source
Near-Death Experience
My Mother Reads Me Little Red Riding Hood as a Young Girl
The True History of Little Golden-Hood
Aubade with Buffalo Girls in Flight.
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