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This stunning collection of poems from writer & performance artist Niki Tulk explores the aftermath of sexual assault. Tulk unearths myths and folklore, revealing profound truths about the stories we craft around violence, womanhood, and justice.
- GenresPoetry
94 pages, Paperback
Published July 26, 2022
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May 2, 2023
Reviewed over at Quarterly West! Here's an excerpt:
In O, fables dance: the dangerous pleasures of interspecies lust open up to a surreal and time-shifting landscape of unlanguagable violence. Told with a feather-light touch and near-biblical cadence, Tulk’s collection of interlinked poems underscore questions of trauma and agency across time, place, form, and species. Woven through all this is an ambivalent engagement with the meaning of in(ter)dependence in all its complexities—as a channel of care as well as violence. Above all, O is folklore at its best: magicking the everyday into a new body of meaning—telling truths that the truth cannot yet tell.
In O, fables dance: the dangerous pleasures of interspecies lust open up to a surreal and time-shifting landscape of unlanguagable violence. Told with a feather-light touch and near-biblical cadence, Tulk’s collection of interlinked poems underscore questions of trauma and agency across time, place, form, and species. Woven through all this is an ambivalent engagement with the meaning of in(ter)dependence in all its complexities—as a channel of care as well as violence. Above all, O is folklore at its best: magicking the everyday into a new body of meaning—telling truths that the truth cannot yet tell.
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