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Synopsis
Poetry. USO: I'LL BE SEEING YOU is at its core a parable of performance and service. How does one perform/serve issues of identity, race, politics, and the essential vulnerability of what it means to be human? What is language in service of and when does it go too far? What degrades? What supports? What is heroic? What does it mean to put oneself at risk or in harm's way? This book speaks via the poetry of stand-up comedy to the U.S. involvement in the Middle East and the difficulties of naming the unnameable.
This book treats themes of race, politics, religion, gender, power, sexuality, and trauma within appropriated, amalgamated frames of stand-up comedy and comedians entertaining the military via USO performances in war zones. As Freud theorized, humor, like dreams, carries unconscious content that makes the unspeakable explicit. The idea of this book is to investigate undigested collective cultural taboos that have historically only been able to be metabolized through vehicles of popular culture, especially comedy. Ideas of personhood and sense of self within the abovementioned themes is challenged through multiply subjective iterations, non-narrative structure, and appropriated language systems.
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About the Author
Kim Rosenfield is a poet and psychotherapist. She is the author of GOOD MORNING MIDNIGHT (Roof Books, 2002), which was named Small Press Traffic's Book of the Year in 2002, TRAMA (Krupskaya, 2004), RE: EVOLUTION (Les Figues Press, 2009), LIVIDITY (Les Figues Press, 2012). and USO (I'LL BE SEEING YOU) (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013). Her work has been included in the anthologies Bowery Women (YBK Publishers, Inc., 2006), The GURLESQUE: THE NEW GRRLY, GROTESQUE, BURLESQUE POETICS (Saturnalia Books, 2010), AGAINST EXPRESSION: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONCEPTUAL WRITING (Northwestern University Press, 2011) and I'LL DROWN MY BOOK. She co-founded and co-edited Object magazine (1993-2002) with poet Robert Fitterman. She is part of the artist/writer's collaborative Collective Task (COLLECTIVE TASK, Patrick Lovelace Editions, 2009). Rosenfield lives and works in NYC.
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