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What is W-/M- about?

Poetry. "In this pair of wry, dark, brilliant books, we hear tell of domestic partnerships with a shifting array of W and M. Women and Men? Names multiply, genders reverse, and those initials, flipped, transform into one another. I suspect M could refer to the Market, which hovers everywhere, funneling itself through characters and settling at any opportunity into Mine. At one point the narrator declares that an artwork 'supplements being while framing the subject as a caged thing.' Characters are magic, says one narrator, because they are 'mine,' and control feels good. These speculatively anecdotal meditations on identity, agency, and artifice are witty, cagy, and provocativeHarryman at her best."Catherine Wagner "Part memoir, part autobiography, and part paean to the late Detroit playwright and poet Ron Allen, W/M pits Mnemosyne against Minerva, stringing and unstringing the clothesline of childhood, the lunch lines of adolescence, and the assembly lines of southeastern Michigan. Harryman traces and retraces the line per se as nomadic consciousnesses multiplying beyond the doubles that mark, and thus engender, the self-patrolled borders of identities. At each turn Harryman burro

Author

Harryman, Carla, author

Publisher

Ann Arbor, MI: SplitLevel Texts

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780985811129

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities