Liontaming in America / Elizabeth Willis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Willis, Elizabeth, author.

Series:

New Directions paperbook ; 1611.

New Directions paperbook ; 1611

Standardized Title:

Liontaming in America (Compilation)

Language:

English

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Lion taming in America

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation [2024]

Summary:

""To disrupt the relationship of predator and prey, to reshape one's relation to power, is to renovate the lived and living world," Elizabeth Willis writes in this visionary work that delves deep into the ancient enchantments of the circus and its timeless disciplinary displays. Liontaming in America investigates the utopian aspirations fleetingly enacted in the polyamorous life of a nineteenth-century religious community, interweaving archival and personal threads with the histories of domestic labor, extraction economies, and the performance of family in theater, film, and everyday life. Lines reverberate between worldliness and devotion, between Peter Pan and Close Encounters, between Paul Robeson and Maude Adams, between leaps of faith and passionate alliances, between everyday tragedy and imaginative social possibility. As Willis writes in her afterword to the book, "The repeated unmaking and remaking of America, as a concept and as an ongoing textual project, is not impossible. It is happening all the time.""-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"A New Directions paperbook original."

ISBN:

9780811238632

0811238636

OCLC:

1423495424