Are You Judging Me Yet? : Poetry and Everyday Sexism Paperback / softback
by Kim Moore
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This collection of lyric essays by award-winning poet Kim Moore explore the dynamics of performing poetry as a female poet – confronting the implications of being a female on public display, with the connotations of sexual objectification, in a context that traditionally disregards the body.
Kim states “With the strides and gains made through the #MeToo movement, I believe the time is right for a book like this to make an impact.
As a female poet, I know there is a need for such a book to examine the intersection between writing, performing, feminism and sexism. I wish this book had been written when I first started working as a freelance writer and I’ve had many conversations with other female poets who have also confirmed my thinking – that female poets are navigating these things regularly, and yet nobody is really writing or talking about them.â€â€¯â€¯ The book draws on her experiences of writing and performing the poems in her second collection All the Men I Never Married.
It is a balance of memoir, academic treatise and poetry, though the author’s emphasis is on writing in a popular way and making the subject accessible to a wide audience.
To achieve this her models have been Maggie Nelson’s Bluets, Claudia Rankine’s Citizen and Sarah Ahmed’s Living a Feminist Life.   The book’s subjects include heckling at poetry readings and other interactions; problems with the ‘male gaze’ and what the ‘female gaze’ might look like in poetry; ‘guilty for being a man’: how guilt can be useful if it can bring about change; how writing poetry about sexism can shed add meaning to the term; the objectification of men and women, and ‘bad faith’ arguments.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:Poetry Wales Press
- Publication Date:08/03/2023
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- ISBN:9781781726877
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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:Poetry Wales Press
- Publication Date:08/03/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781781726877