Debt Ritual - Softcover

Naughton, Katie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1964499305 ISBN 13: 9781964499307

Publisher: Bunny, 2025

Synopsis

Winner of the 2023 BUNNY chapbook contest, Katie Naughton’s Debt Ritual sees debt as intensely private yet nevertheless significantly interconnected with global financial systems and other systems of power. Naughton’s text is interested in the way that what appears as money is often funded by debt, while also taking into account the role of art, something that offers social capital without the accompanying wealth. Debt Ritual sets up an equivalence between money and participation in the world and then works to destabilize it. Sized as a dollar bill, Naughton’s book considers the ritualistic use inherent in money and debt and wonders how and if the ritual of art-making replicates -- or interrupts -- the rituals of finance.

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About the Author

Katie Naughton is a poet living in Brooklyn, NY. She is the author of the poetry collection The Real Ethereal (Delete Press, 2024) and the chapbooks Study (above/ground press, 2021) and A Second Singing (Dancing Girl Press, 2023). Her poetry has been published in Fence, Bennington Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Colorado State University and is a doctoral candidate in the Poetics program at State University of New York at Buffalo.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bunny
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1964499305
• ISBN 13: 9781964499307
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 42