Dog Woman

by Chris Abani

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 188899682X
• ISBN13: 9781888996821
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.9" x 8.3"