Dog Woman

Chris Abani

• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Year: 2004
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781597096454
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

Chris Abani's Dog Woman is a mesmerizing, haunting, and sometimes subversive exploration of the personal and cultural politics of disempowerment and power. In these heart rousing and lyrically complex poems, the poet enacts the reconstruction of his feminized selves, and his personae struggle to re-form and transform both themselves and the difficult worlds they inhabit. At turns, earthy, enigmatic, devout, outraged, and compassionate, these elemental women's voices ring true, as they sing siren songs, dirges, and hosannas, and as they navigate into new and unknown territories of human will and endurance. Dog Woman is a daring, trailblazing, and important book; it's a vital addition to the poetry of our times.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Table of Contents
• Author’s Note
• Epiphany’s Prologue
• Water Woman
• Fire Woman
• Stone Woman
• Unholy Woman
• Tree Woman
• Epiphany’s Epilogue
• Notes
• Biographical Note