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Concomitance
Poetry. Women's Studies. As with all failing systems, interdependence is a blessing and a curse. The accoutrements of a body and their associations with people, places, and time are inextricable from each other. Concomitants, if you will. CONCOMITANCE began as documentary and aimed to catalogue the infinitesimal yet burdensome acts of labor behind routine grooming, to examine the daily self reform implied by cosmetics and clothing. Because self maintenance eats up time, the book chews through memory with digressive narratives and swallows the present with real-time thought progressions. Dressing and the tedium of hygiene serve to put us more substantively in a time and place. I remember events by what I was wearing. I look at a tube of lip gloss and think of someone I wanted to kiss.
- GenresPoetry
40 pages, ebook
First published August 7, 2016
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May 30, 2017
3.5 stars. I liked this SO much more than McClure's full collection, Tender Data. Her word choice doesn't completely resonate with me, but this chapbook is a much more focused project, which meant I could follow the threads of her thoughts a lot better and see the beauty and style in her choices. This chapbook is a commentary on how women transform ourselves through beauty products and fashion, and how those things can both alienate us from ourselves and anchor us to certain places, experiences, and identities. It's about the aesthetics of a modern woman's life, basically. I'd definitely recommend this if you're looking to sample some contemporary poetry.
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