The Sunflower Cast a Spell To Save Us From The Void by Jackie Wang (English) Pap

Description: The Sunflower Cast a Spell To Save Us From The Void by Jackie Wang Jackie Wangs magnetic and spellbinding debut collection of poetry that attempts to speak in the language of dreams. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In The Sunflower, Wang follows the sunflowers many dream guises-its evolving symbolism in literature, society, and the authors own dream life using a mathopoetic technique to generate poems using the Fibonacci sequence (a pattern found in the seed spirals of sunflower). The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void embodies what Wang calls oneiric poetry: a poetry that attempts to speak in the language of dreams. Although dreams, in psychoanalytic discourse, have been conceptualized as a window into the unconscious, Wangs poetry emphasizes the social dimension of dreams, particularly the use of dreams to index historical trauma and social processes. Author Biography Jackie Wang is a student of the dream state, black studies scholar, prison abolitionist, poet, performer, library rat, trauma monster and PhD candidate in the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, specializing in race and the political economy of prisons and police in the United States. She is the author of a number of punk zines including On Being Hard Femme, as well as a collection of dream poems titled Tiny Spelunker of the Oneiro-Womb. In 2018 she published a book, titled Carceral Capitalism on the racial, economic, political, legal, and technological dimensions of the US carceral state. She is currently an Arleen Carlson and Edna Nelson Graduate Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Review "Here dreams are spaces of radical possibility, and as in the real world, the possibilities are sometimes magical and sometimes nightmarish and sometimes both, like dress rehearsals for the apocalypse."—The New York Times"In this extraordinary debut, Wang (Carceral Capitalism) creates a symbolist dream diary for catastrophic times... The book engages with climate change and the apocalyptic, asking, Can a book parry catastrophe?"—Starred review in Publishers Weekly"Writer Jackie Wang documented her dreams and sculpted them into poems for her debut collection The Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From The Void. The book is a surrealist expression of how social processes and traumas show up in our dreams, and how we can better understand ourselves by tuning into them."—NPR Morning Edition"The act of writing the dream is itself one of interpretation, but here those interpretations are loose and wild; Wang doesnt give us a stable blueprint. This books revolutionary consciousness is lodged in the act of trying to write and live with something unknowable."—The Nation"The spell of this book preserves the multiple-layered, multiple-petaled nature of life. Wangs collection professes the potency of dream and sunflower; it professes the persistence of powers that save."—The Brooklyn Rail"Wangs collection takes us to all the unfathomable places we sometimes find ourselves in, and reminds us there is also hope and brightness and bravery."—Electric Lit"Wangs debut collection, formally diverse and marked with a sardonic tinge, suggests a porous border between the dream and waking worlds."—The Millions"Dreams, Wang indicates, offer a radical means of reconfiguring the terrain of the present, working through interior and social responses to calamity, intimating different realities. Wangs poems reshape the hermetic and confounding work of dreams to reveal these secret capacities, there all along."—Public Books"Can a book parry catastrophe? Jackie Wang (heliomancer, revelator, poet) asks, in a book that not only parries catastrophe, but climbs, through its eye, into its mind, into its fantasy even. From the blistering seat of that overwhelming perspective, Wang begins calling catastrophe back from storming and suffering itself onto others (community, friendships, the future), by counting and recounting, in the most irreproachably neon vocabulary, dreams, translations of dreams, which are, as reclamations of logic and improvements of life, scenarios that together manifest an alternative method of survival: the sunflower book: It is code for love."—Brandon Shimoda"Jackie Wangs new book asks questions that rotate/fluoresce against a backdrop or foreground of ceremonial apprenticeship, like sunflowers or the memories of sunflowers. In this other world, survivor trauma is experienced by creatures and non-creatures alike. I was so moved by the mixtures of writing I encountered here: the "map" of a dream, but also the notebooks that fill up, not always in the English of waking time. I want to write you without writing over you. I have something to tell you, the speaker says, with the delicacy and directness of a sentence written directly on the skin. Kalan Sherrards illustrations echo this way of marking the page: a mode of companionship and witness in a book that did not end because it did not begin. Is this what it feels like to be a person?"—Bhanu Kapil"Jackie Wangs The Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From The Void is a gorgeous, ambitious, phantasmagoric lament for the better worlds our bodies tell us must be possible, every day, even when were numb with pain. It goes deeper into darkness—political darkness, the end of our days—than anything Ive read in recent poetry. But the poems are also filled with shifting, glittering Is and yous that frame themselves for us then break their frames, repeatedly moving between poetry and meditations on "poetry" before becoming beautiful poetry again. I felt myself get lost and found in their address. I hope you will, as well."—Chris Nealon Promotional Advanced Reader copiesOutreach to Asian American Media10-city national tourSocial media campaign Long Description In The Sunflower, Wang follows the sunflowers many dream guises-its evolving symbolism in literature, society, and the authors own dream life using a mathopoetic technique to generate poems using the Fibonacci sequence (a pattern found in the seed spirals of sunflower). The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void embodies what Wang calls oneiric poetry: a poetry that attempts to speak in the language of dreams. Although dreams, in psychoanalytic discourse, have been conceptualized as a window into the unconscious, Wangs poetry emphasizes the social dimension of dreams, particularly the use of dreams to index historical trauma and social processes. Review Quote "Our subconscious knows more about us than our waking selves. And it is often through dreams that we are able to tap into this unknown realm. Writer Jackie Wang documented her dreams and sculpted them into poems for her debut collection The Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From The Void . The book is a surrealist expression of how social processes and traumas show up in our dreams, and how we can better understand ourselves by tuning into them."-- Jeevika Verma, NPR Morning Edition "In this extraordinary debut, Wang ( Carceral Capitalism ) creates a symbolist dream diary for catastrophic times... The book engages with climate change and the apocalyptic, asking, Can a book parry catastrophe? At another point, Wang observes, I have been having such strange and beautiful dreams lately, and readers will be grateful for these potent, dreamlike reflections."-- Starred review in Publishers Weekly "Can a book parry catastrophe? Jackie Wang (heliomancer, revelator, poet) asks, in a book that not only parries catastrophe, but climbs, through its eye, into its mind, into its fantasy even. From the blistering seat of that overwhelming perspective, Wang begins calling catastrophe back from storming and suffering itself onto others (community, friendships, the future), by counting and recounting, in the most irreproachably neon vocabulary, dreams, translations of dreams, which are, as reclamations of logic and improvements of life, scenarios that together manifest an alternative method of survival: the sunflower book: It is code for love."-- Brandon Shimoda "Jackie Wangs new book asks questions that rotate/fluoresce against a backdrop or foreground of ceremonial apprenticeship, like sunflowers or the memories of sunflowers. In this other world, survivor trauma is experienced by creatures and non-creatures alike. I was so moved by the mixtures of writing I encountered here: the "map" of a dream, but also the notebooks that fill up, not always in the English of waking time. I want to write you without writing over you. I have something to tell you, the speaker says, with the delicacy and directness of a sentence written directly on the skin. Kalan Sherrards illustrations echo this way of marking the page: a mode of companionship and witness in a book that did not end because it did not begin. Is this what it feels like to be a person?"-- Bhanu Kapil "Jackie Wangs The Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From The Void is a gorgeous, ambitious, phantasmagoric lament for the better worlds our bodies tell us must be possible, every day, even when were numb with pain. It goes deeper into darkness--political darkness, the end of our days--than anything Ive read in recent poetry. But the poems are also filled with shifting, glittering Is and yous that frame themselves for us then break their frames, repeatedly moving between poetry and meditations on "poetry" before becoming beautiful poetry again. I felt myself get lost and found in their address. I hope you will, as well."-- Chris Nealon "Wangs debut collection, formally diverse and marked with a sardonic tinge, suggests a porous border between the dream and waking worlds. Who is the woman lurking in the woods? she wonders in an early poem, recognizing that she is a fellow traveler, for She is lost and I am lost. Wang drifts between the real and unreal, documenting an almost Yeatsian interest in that third space, a poetic place between, where the absurd is necessary."-- Nick Ripatrazone, The Millions "Writer and academic Jackie Wangs stunning new poetry collection, The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void, owes much to her dreamlife...This book is not quite a guide, but something like one. The sunflower and the coral tree grow in treacherous soil."-- Maria Bobbitt-Chertock, Womens Review of Books "The insistence on a sunflower in the books title and many epigraphs points us toward the idea that there may be some innate quality in us, too, to reach toward what is good for us--to grow beyond the future the current conditions have given us, toward untouchable sun. With Wangs poems suggestion that not much is worth saving in a world that values all the wrong things, perhaps a single sunflower sprouting from the rubble is all we need to be guided toward the light."-- Hannah Treasure, Akimbo Books "Jackie Wangs poetry debut, The Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From The Void , delivers a fascinating mix of fantasy and reality to start off the new year. Many of these poems have a startling beginning - frequently we enter in the moment of a catastrophe, whether it is a natural disaster, attempted murder, perceived poisoning, or just a vague sense of something strange looming. Wang lends credence to the value of dreams in a way that few seem to, and what is often dismissed with a wave of the hand is held in a gentle spotlight here."-- Bethany Mary, Vagabond City Lit Description for Sales People *Of interest to readers of poetry and people interested in dreams and psychoanalysis*Of interest to people invested in feminist, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist politics*Author has been interviewed in LARB*Harvard, fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. *Next year she will be an Assistant Professor, likely in New Schools department of Culture and Media Studies *Author has been involved in prison abolition activism*Harvard University (PhD, African and African American Studies/History)Awards/Fellowships: Arleen Carlson and Edna Nelson Graduate Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Warren Center Dissertation Fellowship; Weatherhead Dissertation Fellowship, Film Study Center Fellow, Harvard University; Pforzheimer Fellow, Black Feminism Project; The Keith Wilson/Joe Somoza Poetry Prize; Ellis Wright Award; Kundiman Poetry Fellow; Poet-in-Residence, Hermitage Artist Retreat; John Ringling Towers Fund, Literary Arts Award; Margaret L. Bates Award for Research in Gender Studies; Council of Academic Affairs Grant. Details ISBN1643620363 Author Jackie Wang Pages 120 Publisher Nightboat Books Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1643620363 ISBN-13 9781643620367 Format Paperback Imprint Nightboat Books Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Illustrations No NZ Release Date 2021-03-18 US Release Date 2021-03-18 Publication Date 2021-03-18 UK Release Date 2021-03-18 DEWEY 811.6 Audience General AU Release Date 2021-04-11 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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