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Love Cake de Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Love Cake

Autor Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2011

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Lambda Literary Awards (2012)
Poetry. LGBT Studies. Asian American Studies. In these poems, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores how queer people of color resist and transform violence through love and desire. Remembering and testifying about the damage caused by the racial profiling of South Asian and Arab people post 9/11, border crossings and internal and external wars in Sri Lanka and the diaspora, LOVE CAKE also documents the persistence of survival and beauty especially the dangerous beauty found in queer people of color loving and desiring. LOVE CAKE maps the joys and challenges of reclaiming the body and sexuality after violence, examining a family history of violence with compassion and celebrating the resilient, specific ways we create new families, take our bodies back, love, fight, and transform violence."
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ISBN-13: 9781894770699
ISBN-10: 1894770692
Pagini: 97
Dimensiuni: 137 x 208 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Tsar Publications

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Praise for Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's Consensual Genocide: In the poetry of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, there's a power that's nearly atomic. Leah makes the colonizer's language submit to her tongue. ?BUSHRA REHMAN, co-editor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism [Her words leap off the page?ugent, suptuous writing that demands, and deserves, a wide audience. I?m listening. ?ANNA CAMILLERI, author of I am a Red Dress, editor Red Light and Brazen Femmes I read a lot of poetry in 2011 as I was working on my own collection, looking at other contemporary poets? books to see how they make the poems work together, how the poems hold together, or fail to cohere, or purposely resist easy cohesion. Despite this analytic approach, of course I fell in love with poems and poets along the way. My favorite and perhaps the bravest book I read was Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's Love Cake (TSAR, 2011). First of all, it's such a great title?it's so evocative and also the name of a dessert from the poet's father's ancestral land, Sri Lanka. Samarasinha's known to San Francisco and Toronto area audiences as a firebrand, a self-described ?femme shark, ? a performance artist who's just as likely to be at an Occupy protest as on stage. So the poems have that up-to-the-moment timely feeling, but also go back through the history of colonization and ancient roots?for example, there's a prayer to Oshun that references earrings from H&M. (Right!?) Sometimes I find that performance poetry doesn't hold up on the page, but Samarasinha's really does. I adore the tight rhymes and deep passions and the way the poems move from grief and trauma to hot sex to a poignant image, so fast and smooth and gorgeous. These poems work across identities and oceans ?to document, to sing / to remember, insist / to incite, to call: peace, peace. Minal Hajratwala from San Francisco, California. Poets and Writers

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In Love Cake, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores how queer people of colour resist and transform violence through love and desire. Refusing to forget the traumas of post 9/11 Islamophobia, and Sri Lanka's civil war, Love Cake documents the persistence of survival and beauty - especially the dangerous beauty found in queer people of colour's lives. Piepzna-Samarasinha maps the complicated, luscious joy of reclaiming the body and sexuality after abuse, examines a family history of violence with compassion, and celebrates the beautiful resistance of queer people of colour in love and home-making.

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Poetry. LGBT Studies. Asian American Studies. In these poems, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores how queer people of color resist and transform violence through love and desire. Remembering and testifying about the damage caused by the racial profiling of South Asian and Arab people post 9/11, border crossings and internal and external wars in Sri Lanka and the diaspora, LOVE CAKE also documents the persistence of survival and beauty--especially the dangerous beauty found in queer people of color loving and desiring. LOVE CAKE maps the joys and challenges of reclaiming the body and sexuality after violence, examining a family history of violence with compassion and celebrating the resilient, specific ways we create new families, take our bodies back, love, fight, and transform violence.

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