Pamela Sneed is a New York City-based poet, performer, and visual artist. Her other books include KONG and Other Works, Sweet Dreams, and Funeral Diva, which won the 2021 Lambda Lesbian Poetry Award. She has published in The Paris Review, Frieze, Art Forum, and elsewhere.
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Acknowledgements xi Preface: Genesis xiii Part One Languages I've Never Learned 5 The Final Solution 6 The Silver Badge 8 Eyes on the Prize 13 Incest 15 Jealousy 16 Precious Crazy Girl Giggles 17 Why Did You Have to Be a Poet? 18 I haven't told you 20 Blues Suite 21 Elegy 22 Rapunzel 23 Underestimation of Power 24 Teaching 26 Stretch Marks and Cellulite 28 New York 31 When we broke up 32 Planet of the Apes 33 It is Not a New Age 35 Part Two The Woods 39 History hasn't told the truth about revolutionaries 41 Monologue to God 42 Dear God, 44 The Artist 46 The Revolutionary 48 Helpful Hints for an Aspiring Martyr 52 Woman in Love 1 53 Woman in Love 2 55 Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery 57 Epilogue: Runaway 63
If a sledgehammer could whisper, its name would be Pamela Sneed.-- "The Boston Globe" All of us should read and thank this poet repeatedly.---Gregg Bordowitz, author of Imagevirus Pamela Sneed tells the truth with fierce concentration and an abiding sense of purpose.---Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina She is a writer for the future, in that she defies genre.---Hilton Als, author of White Girls