Zefyr Lisowski: Girl Work: Book Launch
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Monday, June 17th, from 7PM - 8PM
GIRL WORK with Zefyr Lisowski, Kemi Alabi, Donna/Dante Marie Gary, Robin Reid Drake
We’re excited to welcome Zefyr Lisowski, Kemi Alabi, Donna/Dante Marie Gary, Robin Reid Drake to the store for a reading in celebration of Zefyr Liswoski’s new book Girl Work.
Girl Work, a book-length meditation on sexual violence and feminized labor, centers hybrid-form and prose poems exploring haunting, labor, sexual trauma, and the assertion of a gender- nonconforming self in our current political moment. Written in injunctions to the self, to past assailants, and to friends, GIRL WORK challenges canonical representations of pain as punitive, redemptive, or separable from the environmental conditions it springs from. Throughout Girl Work, a self is restored from the detritus of memory—flashes of sexual violence, pop cultural touchstones like the movie The Ring, the music of Ke$ha, the sudden death of a father, the paintings of Henry Darger, and more. Winner of the 2022 Book Award from Noemi Press.
Zefyr Lisowski is a poet and essayist from the Great Dismal Swamp, North Carolina. A poetry co-editor of the Whiting Award winning Apogee Journal, she’s the author of two books, Blood Box (Black Lawrence Press, 2019) and Girl Work, winner of the 2022 Noemi Book Prize. A 2023 NYFA/NYSCA Fellow and 2023 Queer|Art Fellow, Zefyr has received further support from Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, Blue Mountain Center, the Center for the Humanities, and Sundress Academy for the Arts. She lives online at zeflisowski.com.
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