The Shining Material

by Aisha Sasha John

Overview

The Shining Material is about saying I. Disrupt, interrupt, challenge I? How boring. How violent. Better/instead/also cradle-interrogate I; to a steaming, exfoliating shining, hold I: the curve at the top of I, the curve at the base of I, the long shaft I oh I. Sigh: I, you get a lot of shit, so in The Shining Material, the poet speaks you meekly, hoarsely, disobediently: witness Aisha Sasha John braid self-portrature, ekphrasis, and her own brand of psalm to produce an experience much like falling down the stairs and it helping.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781897388792
Publisher:	Book*hug Press
Publication date:	05/30/2011
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

AISHA SASHA JOHN is a dance improviser and poet. She was born in Montreal, but spent most of her childhood in Vancouver, and currently lives in Toronto. John has a BA in African Studies and Semiotics from the University of Toronto and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph.

Editorial Reviews

"Miss John here reminds, in oddly comely poems of direct address, "how small the aesthetic is" and how ravenously transcendent the human woman. The mouths of these poems adore phonemes and are unafraid of their important difference: they say the woman as the linguist of thinking. They refuse to assuage or to mollify or to rectify. They smack of an emergent candour. To serve their biopolitic, they may have invented an extra vowel, the first since Hittite." —Lisa Robertson

"John's eminently relatable, apparently literal anecdotes slip quite seamlessly into mythology and surrealism." —Helen Guri

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