Decency
Will be published approx. on 1. April 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-62557-935-5 (ISBN)
Description
Poetry. Jewish Studies. Women's Studies. DECENCY celebrates the spunky wenches, the unfortunate queens, the complicated translators, the wistful wives who have been hustled off the spotlit stages of history. Through the lens of Victorian manuals of etiquette, through the unfolding of religion from the Middle East to the American Southwest, DECENCY thinks through the brutal things we do to one another, recording the ways the individual operates in relation to society's mores and harms. From the Sumerian queen Puabi to contemporary female recruits to the Israeli intelligence's "Honeytrap" operation, DECENCY is a mix of the documentary and the lyrical, the wrathful and the joyful.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Watertown
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62557-935-5 (9781625579355)
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Marcela Sulak's five Black Lawrence Press titles include The Fault (2024), National Jewish Book Awards finalist, City of Sky Papers (2021), lyric memoir Mouth Full of Seeds (2020), Decency (2015), and Immigrant (2010). She's co-edited the Rose-Metal Press title Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres. Sulak's translations from the Czech, French, and Hebrew have been recognized by PEN and the National Endowment for the Arts. Sulak is managing editor of The Ilanot Review, and directs the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan University, where she is Associate Professor of American Literature.