Research Catalog

Title

Word warriors : 35 women leaders in the spoken word revolution / edited by Alix Olson ; foreword by Eve Ensler.

Publication

Emeryville, CA : Seal Press, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Olson, Alix

Description

xviii, 409 p. : ports.; 22 cm.

Summary

A collection of poems and essays by thirty-five female spoken word artists from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including Sarah Jones, Leah Harris, Tracie Morris, and others.

Subject

• 1900-2099
• American poetry > Women authors
• American poetry > 20th century
• American poetry > 21st century
• Women > United States > Poetry
• Oral interpretation of poetry > History > 20th century
• Oral interpretation of poetry > History > 21st century
• Oral interpretation of poetry > Competitions
• Poetry slams
• Poetry > Authorship

Genre/Form

• History
• Poetry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Cast of Characters Your revolution / Sarah Jones -- Wax poetic / Sarah Jones On sister spit Pigeon manifesto / Michelle Tea -- Beautiful / Michelle Tea -- Protegee We live up here / Lenelle Moise -- Loch Ness monsters / Lenelle Moise -- Lost and found Somewhere, over / Daphne Gottlieb -- Death drive (a transfession) / Daphne Gottlieb -- On Mothers and mothertongue I am from, third cycle / Natalie E. Illum -- What we learn in one night / Natalie E. Illum -- Lyrical Self-defense and the Reluctant Female Rapper Cellulite / Aya De Leon -- Grito de Vieques / Aya De Leon -- Mad Poet's Manifesto Revenge of the crazy wimmin / Leah Harris -- Take refuge / Leah Harris -- Dirtiest word you've ever heard Do the math / Meliza Banales -- Generation / Meliza Banales -- Slam Ma'am Sylvia Plath Sliver / Karen Garrabrant -- Air Ego Balloon / Karen Garrabrant -- Stumbling In Empress of sighs / Beth Lisick -- Monkey girl / Beth Lisick -- Page for a day Quick thank-you note to Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath / Genevieve Van Cleve -- Altar call (I want Jesus back) / Genevieve Van Cleve -- Making a name Motor oil queen / Cheryl Burke -- Jones / Cheryl Burke -- Choir is born Nothing generation / Katz -- Taken in like oxygen / Katz -- What I remember Herstory of my hips / C.C. Carter -- Warning / C.C. Carter -- Turn it down a notch Subtle sister / Alix Olson -- That the protagonist is always a man / Alix Olson -- In my own English First writing since / Suheir Hammad -- Prayer band / Suheir Hammad -- From inside Montana de oro / Rachel Kann -- Titular / Rachel Kann -- Body Sanctuary Book of Rules: a girl's guide to doing what you're told / Nomy Lamm -- There's always this feeling like something's missing / Nomy Lamm -- Shaking it off Andrew / Andrea Gibson -- Blue blanket / Andrea Gibson -- My longest relationship -- Starfucking closer to home or what happens when you reach for the stars and they reach back / Thea Hillman -- Miscarriage / Thea Hillman -- We all leave something Ball and chain record store / Ellyn Maybe -- Ellyn Maybe's dream / Ellyn Maybe -- Ad-libbing Apology to Pangea / Tracie Morris -- Las Brujitas / Tracie Morris -- Working luck Lit (or to the scientist whom I'm not speaking to anymore) / Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz -- All I'd leave behind / Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz -- In other words God in you / Sini Anderson -- Say more / Sini Anderson -- In and out of spoken word American poem / Eileen Myles -- Merk / Eileen Myles -- Taco Shop tales Any closer to home and my heart will burst 2 / Lynne Procope -- Butterfly nut house / Lynne Procope -- You say you want a revolution Instructions for a body / Marty McConnell -- Joan of Arc to the $2,000-an-hour woman / Marty McConnell -- Spilling Ink Pussy Manifesto / Bitch -- Red roof in / Bitch -- Good Sista/Bad Sista Supa soul sistas / Turiya Autry and Walidah Imarisha -- No you don't know me / Turiya Autry and Walidah Imarisha -- Boy among weemon Knuckle sandwich / Lynn Breedlove -- Breasticles / Lynn Breedlove -- Poet for the people Cross-fire / StaceyAnn Chin -- Poem for the Gay Games / StaceyAnn Chin -- Exceeding expectations Sleeping sickness / Julia Serano -- Vice versa / Julia Serano -- Name-calling Asking for a heart attack / Patricia Smith -- Building Nicole's mama / Patricia Smith.

ISBN

• 9781580052214 (alk. paper)
• 1580052215 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007032584

OCLC

• 154674087
• SCSB-10575980

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library