{"product_id":"fast-speaking-woman-chants-and-essays-9780872863163","title":"Fast Speaking Woman: Chants and Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnne Waldman takes the opportunity with this twentieth-anniversary expanded edition to add twenty poems to this collection that brings into focus her lifelong engagement with \"chant\" as central to contemporary performative poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere are spells, invocations, laments, ritual rants. Archaic beliefs in magic and ecstasy meet current notions of the power of the spoken word. Waldman writes, The poem is a textured energy field or modal structure. The poems for performance seem to manifest as psychological states of mind. They come together in a mental, verbal, physical, and emotional form, making their particular demands on my voice and body. I am the 'energumen.' The poem is the experience. Also included in this book are three essays on the oral tradition in poetry. One essay discusses the history and occasion of the title poem. The others treat such topics as performance art and poetic tradition, ethnopoetics, intoxication and transformation, Tibetan Buddhism, and the renewed ascendency of feminine energy in writing. Anne Waldman, world renowned for her high-energy poetry performances, is the author of over thirty books and chapbooks of poetry. She is the co-founder and director of The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne Waldman is one of the fastest, wisest women to run with the wolves in some time.--\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne Waldman, world renowned for her high-energy poetry performances, is the co-founder and director of The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. She is the author of over thirty books and chapbooks of poetry including \u003cem\u003eThe Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment, Voice's Daughter of a Heart Yet to be Born \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eManatee\/Humanity (Penguin Poets).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anne Waldman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e City Lights Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 159\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.25h x 4.89w x 0.51d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780872863163\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/1996","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40759772774515,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":21.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_27f0d081-3e0d-4d24-abd2-52f810c5b825.jpg?v=1678974681","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/fast-speaking-woman-chants-and-essays-9780872863163","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}