Theatrix: Poetry Plays - Svoboda, Terese
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"Terese Svoboda's eighth book of poetry, "Theatrix: Poetry Plays," is all about play, and no pun is too low to interrogate the reader's Fourth Wall. Voices and not voice amplify the anxious voyeur's "Theatrix" experience. Touching on HBO's Chernobyl series, democracy in the Sudan, the patter of a comedienne, Mom, a little Shakespeare, the performative qualities of a Title IX hearing, Emma Goldman's corpse, the Supreme Court hearing of Brett Kavanaugh, the murder of the prostitute Helen Jewett, Covid-19 (of course), the actual house of Usher, WWII schipperkes, and the 1980s phenomenon of atria,…mehr

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"Terese Svoboda's eighth book of poetry, "Theatrix: Poetry Plays," is all about play, and no pun is too low to interrogate the reader's Fourth Wall. Voices and not voice amplify the anxious voyeur's "Theatrix" experience. Touching on HBO's Chernobyl series, democracy in the Sudan, the patter of a comedienne, Mom, a little Shakespeare, the performative qualities of a Title IX hearing, Emma Goldman's corpse, the Supreme Court hearing of Brett Kavanaugh, the murder of the prostitute Helen Jewett, Covid-19 (of course), the actual house of Usher, WWII schipperkes, and the 1980s phenomenon of atria, "Theatrix" goads the meta-theatrical into an explosion of poetry"--
Autorenporträt
A Guggenheim fellow, Terese Svoboda is the author of 19 books of poetry, fiction, memoir, biography, and translation.Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet appeared in paper in 2018, and Great American Desert, a book of stories, in 2019. Doubleback Books reprinted Treason, her fourth book of poetry, in 2020. She has also been awarded the Bobst Prize in fiction, the Iowa Prize for poetry, an NEH grant for translation, the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, a Jerome Foundation prize for video, the O. Henry Award for the short story, and a Pushcart Prize for the essay. She is a three-time winner of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, and has had Headlands, James Merrill, Hawthornden, Yaddo, McDowell, and Bellagio residencies. Her opera WET premiered at L.A.'s Disney Hall in 2005. A native of Nebraska, she now divides her time between a houseboat in Victoria BC and NYC with her husband and a moth-eared papillion named Fred.