Nights Reading: Burton's Thousand and One
Language: English
Published by Lavender Ink, New Orleans, 2014
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- Title
- Nights Reading: Burton's Thousand and One
- Author
- Reed, Marthe
- Publisher
- Lavender Ink, New Orleans
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Fine copy
- Binding
- softcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1935084682
- ISBN 13
- 9781935084686
- Edition
- 1st.
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- Poetry
Engagements with the Thousand and One Nights, gender, narration, and Sir Richard Burton, as well as other writers’ takes on the story-cycle, Nights Reading muses upon the nature of narrative and Scheherazade as narrator. Drawing from the original story cycle's positing of Scheherazade as redeemer of not only herself and her sister virgins of the kingdom, but of just rule and King Shariyar’s humanity, the poems explore tropes of gender and of the seemingly powerless (women, slaves, blacks) to erode and challenge the status quo.
"Marthe Reed's advice to Burton, the Nights translator, is to speak not of what concerns you not. Here the poet examines a great oral tradition put to paper, its 'thousand miles of moonlight' obscured by 'the catholicism of (his) intentions emending her account,' or rather, not so much Scheherazade's—herself a fiction, but centuries of storytelling born of another world entirely. —Rikki Ducornet
"Marthe Reed's exploratory Nights Reading writes its way through and around a story that may or may not be familiar, the sights, sounds and contradictions of the act of storytelling itself. Moving her book-length accumulations of lyric fragments through the 'serious play' of gymnastic puns, breath-breaks and incompletions, Reed's quick turns and shifts are deliberate, jagged and entirely unexpected. How does one remain on solid ground when both story and narrator are slippery, unreliable? Very carefully, one might say." —rob mclennan
"a major coming forth" —Jerome Rothenberg
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About the Author
Marthe Reed is the author of Pleth, a collaboration with j hastain, (em)bodied bliss, Gaze and Tender Box, A Wunderkammer, as well as six chapbooks. Her poetry has appeared in New American Writing, Golden Handcuffs Review, New Orleans Review, HOW2, MiPOesias, Fairy Tale Review, Exquisite Corpse, BlazeVOX, and The Offending Adam, among others. The former director of the Creative Writing Program the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, she now resides in Syracuse, NY, where she is Co-Publisher of Black Radish Books and Editor/Publisher of Nous-zot Press chapbooks.
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