Ten Thousand Things
Published on 5. November 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
70 pages
978-1-911343-17-2 (ISBN)
Description
Ten Thousand Things is about motherhood. Also it is about the equipmentality of woman in/to society in general. It is about parenting as labour; poetry as labour; labour as poetry; poetry as thought; thinking as poetry; protest as labour; poetry as protest; and our perennially changing, perennially stuck hereditary lines. It is for warrior-women. It is for girly-men. It is for all persons, animals, plants in between. It is about love. It is about fear. It is about doubt. It is about hope.
It is against misogyny, even of the well-meaning kind that tells people how to be in the short term or when to sacrifice themselves for everybody else's good. It is against the mythopoesis of mother as stand-in for all creation, and also, of course, it carefully recognizes this careless summary. It is against purity and divisive lines. It is against destruction - of any persons or animals or plants on this planet, which also happens to be the home that sustains us. Duh!
It wishes that in the future there would be other ways of loving, living, pro-/creating and dying. It hopes humans might find out what these are before it's too late.
It is against misogyny, even of the well-meaning kind that tells people how to be in the short term or when to sacrifice themselves for everybody else's good. It is against the mythopoesis of mother as stand-in for all creation, and also, of course, it carefully recognizes this careless summary. It is against purity and divisive lines. It is against destruction - of any persons or animals or plants on this planet, which also happens to be the home that sustains us. Duh!
It wishes that in the future there would be other ways of loving, living, pro-/creating and dying. It hopes humans might find out what these are before it's too late.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Norwich
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 186 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
96 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-911343-17-2 (9781911343172)
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Emily Critchley has poetry collections with Barque, Intercapillary, Corrupt, Holdfire, Torque, Oystercatcher, Dusie, Bad and Arehouse presses and a selected writing: Love / All That / & OK (Penned in the Margins, 2011). She has also published critical articles on poetry, philosophy and feminism and is the editor of Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America & the UK (Reality Street, 2016). Critchley is Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Greenwich, London.