The Kingdom of the Subjunctive

by Suzanne Wise

Riddled with mistranslations, misappropriations, and malapropisms, Suzanne Wise imagines the world as a postmodern police state under attack: tables turn, tea carts explode, floorboards melt, ceilings sail off. Like the rebel girls in her poem "The Ghetto of Blasphemy," Wise takes aim at the official rhetoric of patriarchy and reveals gender to be a tattered assemblage pieced together from a looted past. Wise charts the self through an inquiry into...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1882295234
• ISBN13: 9781882295234
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Alice James Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"