Now Available
A new, expanded, digital edition of the popular anthology Gurlesque
Edited by Arielle Greenberg & Becca Klaver
Gurlesque: a term that describes writers who perform femininity in their poems in a campy or overtly mocking manner, risking the grotesque to shake the foundations of acceptable female behavior and language.
This new digital anthology features poems and essays exploring grrly, grotesque, burlesque poetics that pushes the aesthetic envelope through radical, femme, Third Wave strategies. Built from the bric-a-brac of girl culture, these works charm and repel: this work is fun, subversive, and important.
Featuring work by:
Electric Gurlesque features poems by contributors to the 2010 Gurlesque anthology as well as by many poets who are new to this edition:
Gina Abelkop, Vidhu Aggarwal, Melissa Broder, Tina Brown Celona, Brenda Coultas, Marisa Crawford, Olivia Cronk, Katie Degentesh, Cleo Pam Dick, LaTasha Nevada Diggs, Stacy Doris, Kate Durbin, Natalie Eilbert, Carina Finn, Sarah Fox, Sarah Gambito, Mira Gonzalez, Nada Gordon, K. Lorraine Graham, Matthea Harvey, Cathy Park Hong, Min Kang, Geraldine Kim, Dylan Krieger, Sade LaNay, Dorothea Lasky, Ji Yoon Lee, Sandra Lim, Trisha Low, Monica McClure, Chelsey Minnis, Sawako Nakayasu, Morgan Parker, Kiki Petrosino, Niina Pollari, Khadijah Queen, Montana Ray, Kim Rosenfield, Trish Salah, Kim Gek Lin Short, Sliilith-Sliidka “Sliik” Tcharek SliiBO-Bos’Slii, Heidi Lynn Staples, TC Tolbert, Sarah Vap, Kim Vodicka, and Catherine Wagner.
A new essay section includes scholarly articles, personal essays, interviews, and reviews—on Gurlesque writing, film, music, and more—by:
Emily Brandt, Sarah Cook, Maria Damon, Ailbhe Darcy, Nadia de Vries, Kate Durbin, Thomas Fink & Sawako Nakayasu, B. K. Fischer, Jay Gabler, Arielle Greenberg, Ames Hawkins, Amy Key, Geraldine Kim, Becca Klaver, Caolan Madden, Monica McClure, Art Middleton, Megan Milks & Ezra Stone, Amanda Montei, Jeff Nguyen, Maria Margareta Österholm & Helena Österlund, Metta Sáma, Kim Gek Lin Short, Carmen Giménez, Will Vincent, Ruth Williams, and Trina Young.
The full-color enhanced ebook also features audio of poets reading their work, a teaching guide, neon selfie author photos, as well as textures, typefaces, and color palettes designed by Sevy Perez to evoke a Gurlesque aesthetic.
Electric Gurlesque is now available exclusively through Kobo eReader.