{"product_id":"mary-wants-to-be-a-superwoman-paperback","title":"Mary Wants to Be a Superwoman - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eErica Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eTyrone Williams\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"People still sing goddamn it. Praise be to erica lewis.\" --Sampson Starkweather, author of \u003ci\u003ePAIN: The Board Game\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeing of black, Native American, and white descent, erica lewis' poems recount her friends and family's--especially the women's--complex history with race, gender, and class in America, what it means to live with your own history, and how to move on. Each poem is framed by phrases from the lyrics of Stevie Wonder's Motown records, but the poems themselves are homages to her women kin, friends, and other contemporary women poets. And the dominant motif is brokenness. It is lewis' take on revising the confessional while taking inspiration from her family's own oral history. Each poem is also framed by phrases from the lyrics of Stevie Wonder's Motown records, but the poems are not \"about\" the actual songs, but what is triggered when listening to or thinking about the music. What happens when you take something like a pop song and turn it in on itself, give it a different frame of reference, juxtapose the work against itself, against other pop music, and bring it into the present. mary wants to be a superwoman is the second book of the box-set trilogy; daryl hall is my boyfriend (Barrelhouse, 2015) is the first.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"By intertwining the public and the personal, Lewis's poems become a membrane through which pop culture permeates the most intimate experiences of selfhood.\" --\u003ci\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eerica lewis lives in San Francisco. Her books include \u003ci\u003edaryl hall is my boyfriend (Barrelhouse 2015)\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003emurmur in the inventory\u003c\/i\u003e (Shearsman Books), and\u003ci\u003e the precipice of jupiter\u003c\/i\u003e (Queue Books) and \u003ci\u003ecamera obscura\u003c\/i\u003e (BlazeVox Books), both collaborations with artist Mark Stephen Finein.\u003cbr\u003eTyrone Williams full-length collections of poetry include the \u003ci\u003eAdventures of Pi \u003c\/i\u003e(2011), and \u003ci\u003eHowell\u003c\/i\u003e (2011). Williams is the editor of \u003ci\u003eAfrican American Literature: Revised Edition\u003c\/i\u003e (2008). In 2013, he was a writer for the \u003ci\u003ePoetry Foundation's Harriet\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches at Xavier University in Cincinnati.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 108\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.1 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 04, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763639484704,"sku":"9780996401616","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e77cddbc2161a2ce5f022734d98afa42.webp?v=1780237652","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/mary-wants-to-be-a-superwoman-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}