Poetry by Anne Waldman
August 16, 2011 7.5 x 10.1 720 pages 978-1-56689-255-1
Published for the first time in its entirety, this major epic poem assures Anne Waldmans place in the pantheon of contemporary poetry.
The Iovis Trilogy, Waldmans monumental feminist epic, traverses epochs, cultures, and genres to create a visionary call to poetic arms. Iovis details the misdeeds of the Patriarch, and with a fierce imagination queries and subverts his warmongering. All of Waldmans themes come into focusfriendship, motherhood, politics, and Buddhist wisdom. This is epic poetry that goes beyond the old injunction to include historyits effort is to change history.
About the Author
Anne Waldman is an internationally renowned poet, performer, and Distinguished Professor of Poetics at Naropa Universitys Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. She is the co-editor of Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action and the author of over forty books, including In the Room of Never Grieve and Vow to Poetry: Essays, Interviews, & Manifestos.