Description
In The grass is greener when the sun is yellow, poets Sarah Rosenthal and Valerie Witte engage with the work of dancer-choreographers Simone Forti and Yvonne Rainer. Through research into these innovative women's dances, ideas, and lives, Rosenthal and Witte use language from and about the choreographers to create a series of co-written sonnets that are interwoven with letters between the two poets. These letters describe the process of composing the poems and branch into discussions of dance, poetics, gender, transgression, the unfolding disaster of the current political scene, and much else, in the associative weave that epistolary form enacts. Together, the poems and letters construct an environment of reflection, intimacy, and vulnerability, one that is both challenging and invitational.
Author: Sarah Rosenthal, Valerie Witte
Publisher: Operating System
Published: 06/24/2019
Pages: 66
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.21lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.16d
ISBN13: 9781946031679
ISBN10: 1946031674
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | General
- Literary Collections | Letters
- Performing Arts | Dance | History & Criticism
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