Resting bitch face : poems /
Resting Bitch Face is a book for women, for Black women, for lovers of art and film criticism and for writers interested in work that finds a middle ground between poetry and prose. Taylor Byas uses some of our most common ways of 'watching' throughout history (painting, films, sculpture a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Soft Skull Press,
[2025].
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| Summary: | Resting Bitch Face is a book for women, for Black women, for lovers of art and film criticism and for writers interested in work that finds a middle ground between poetry and prose. Taylor Byas uses some of our most common ways of 'watching' throughout history (painting, films, sculpture and photographs) to explore how these mediums shape Black female subjectivity. From the examination of artwork by Picasso, Gauguin, Sally Mann and Nan Goldin, Byas displays her mastery of the poetic form by engaging in intimate and inventive writing. Fluctuating between watcher and watched, the speaker of these poems uses mirrors and reflections to flip the script and talk back to histories of art, text, photography, relationships and men. From Polaroids to gesso primer to sculpture, Byas creates a world in which the artist calls out and the muse responds. For not only does she enter the world of the long-revered classic artist, but she also infuses her poems with such iconic pop-culture works as The Joker, WandaVision and Last Tango in Paris. |
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| Physical Description: | 98 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781593767877 1593767870 |