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Nights Reading

Marthe Reed

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Description:Engagements with the Thousand and One Nights, gender, narration, and Sir Richard Burton, as well as other writers’ takes on the story-cycle, Nights Reading muses upon the nature of narrative and Scheherazade as narrator. Drawing from the original story cycle's positing of Scheherazade as redeemer of not only herself and her sister virgins of the kingdom, but of just rule and King Shariyar’s humanity, the poems explore tropes of gender and of the seemingly powerless (women, slaves, blacks) to erode and challenge the status quo. Praise for Nights Reading and Marthe Reed Marthe Reed’s advice to Burton, the Nights translator, is to speak not of what concerns you not. Here the poet examines a great oral tradition put to paper, its ‘thousand miles of moonlight’ obscured by ‘the catholicism of (his) intentions emending her account,’ or rather, not so much Scheherazade’s—herself a fiction, but centuries of storytelling born of another world entirely. —Rikki Ducornet Marthe Reed’s exploratory Nights Reading writes its way through and around a story that may or may not be familiar, the sights, sounds and contradictions of the act of storytelling itself. Moving her book-length accumulations of lyric fragments through the ‘serious play’ of gymnastic puns, breath-breaks and incompletions, Reed’s quick turns and shifts are deliberate, jagged and entirely unexpected. How does one remain on solid ground when both story and narrator are slippery, unreliable? Very carefully, one might say. —rob mclennan …a major coming forth… —Jerome RothenbergWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Nights Reading. To get started finding Nights Reading, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 120

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Lavender Ink

Release: 2014

ISBN: 1935084682

Description: Engagements with the Thousand and One Nights, gender, narration, and Sir Richard Burton, as well as other writers’ takes on the story-cycle, Nights Reading muses upon the nature of narrative and Scheherazade as narrator. Drawing from the original story cycle's positing of Scheherazade as redeemer of not only herself and her sister virgins of the kingdom, but of just rule and King Shariyar’s humanity, the poems explore tropes of gender and of the seemingly powerless (women, slaves, blacks) to erode and challenge the status quo. Praise for Nights Reading and Marthe Reed Marthe Reed’s advice to Burton, the Nights translator, is to speak not of what concerns you not. Here the poet examines a great oral tradition put to paper, its ‘thousand miles of moonlight’ obscured by ‘the catholicism of (his) intentions emending her account,’ or rather, not so much Scheherazade’s—herself a fiction, but centuries of storytelling born of another world entirely. —Rikki Ducornet Marthe Reed’s exploratory Nights Reading writes its way through and around a story that may or may not be familiar, the sights, sounds and contradictions of the act of storytelling itself. Moving her book-length accumulations of lyric fragments through the ‘serious play’ of gymnastic puns, breath-breaks and incompletions, Reed’s quick turns and shifts are deliberate, jagged and entirely unexpected. How does one remain on solid ground when both story and narrator are slippery, unreliable? Very carefully, one might say. —rob mclennan …a major coming forth… —Jerome RothenbergWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Nights Reading. To get started finding Nights Reading, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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