Fast Speaking Woman: Chants & Essays

by Anne Waldman

Anne Waldman takes the opportunity with this 20th-anniversary expanded edition to add 20 poems to this collection that brings into focus her lifelong engagement with "chant" as central to contemporary performative poetry.

Here are spells, invocations, laments, ritual rants. Archaic beliefs in magic and ecstasy meet current notions of the power of the spoken word. Waldman writes, "The poem is a textured energy field or modal structure...

• Format: Audio CD
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1713647141
• ISBN13: 9781713647140
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Audible Studios on Brilliance
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 6.7"