Uterotopia

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Poems

By Rachel Galvin

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Uterotopia is a powerful collection of poems by Rachel Galvin that delves into themes of sexism, aging, fertility, mortality, and violence against women. With lyric intensity and dark humour, the poems intertwine urban legends, folk rituals, and real-world events, engaging in a conversation with notable writers such as César Vallejo, Kim Hyesoon, and W.H. Auden.
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With lyric intensity, wordplay, and dark humour, Uterotopia explores sexism and aging, fertility and mortality, the bystander effect, and violence against women on an intimate and national level.

In poems that converse with writers including César Vallejo, Kim Hyesoon, and W.H. Auden, urban legends and folk rituals interweave with facts, anecdotes, and news items.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780892555659

Publisher: Persea Books Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 January 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Persea Books Inc

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 8.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 116g

Pages: 64

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Poetry Rachel Galvin

About the Author

Rachel Galvin is Associate Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She is a scholar, poet, and translator. Her poems and translations appear in The Boston Review, Colorado Review, Drunken Boat, Gulf Coast, MAKE, McSweeney's, The New Yorker, PN Review, and Poetry. Her criticism appears in Comparative Literature Studies, ELH, Jacket 2, MLN, and Modernism/modernity. She is a co-founder of Outranspo, an international creative translation collective.