Caroline Hagood. Hanging Loose (SPD, dist.), $18 trade paper (72p) ISBN 978-1-934909-46-1
Hagood follows her debut collection, Lunatic Speaks, with a brave and innovative poetic exploration of the grotesque yet mystical universe of Maxine, an educated woman in New York City who copes with the trauma of sexual abuse by leaving society to...
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Caroline Hagood. Hanging Loose, $18 trade paper (200p) ISBN 978-1-934909-71-3
Hagood debuts with an explosive if uneven riff on Dickens’s A Christmas Carol (after the critical memoir Ways of Looking at a Woman), in which the ghosts of Jackie Kennedy and Valerie Solanas haunt a sexist novelist. Herzog, the author, spies on a...
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Caroline Hagood. Spuyten Duyvil, $18 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-956005-77-6
Hagood (Ways of Looking at a Woman), a literature professor at St. Francis College, blends literary criticism and memoir in this beguiling book-length essay on motherhood and “all the ways that creative women can be viewed as monstrous.” Hagood’s...
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Edited by Wendy and Tyler Chin-Tanner. Wave Blue World, $16.99 trade paper (200p) ISBN 978-1-949518-13-9
This ambitious anthology of feminist comics poetry aims high, and soars in some selections. Each chapter opens with a short comic, which interprets a poem, which is replicated as original text following the comic. Every talent assembled, from the...
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