No Gender: Reflections on the Life & Work of kari edwards

"kari's authorial 'signature' undoes the authorial body in favor of a visible obfuscation-strikethru: kari never just signed, but rather crossed out hir name and wrote 'NO GENDER.' The erasure — well no, the palimpsestic remaking of the name into a symbol for the dismantling of enforced gender codes is a profound and provocative gesture — the name is still visible behind the NO GENDER, as if behind bars ... kari's genius moved others to their own words, art, action — following a mandate of reclaiming the very words we speak and write — writing our selves, our other(ed) bodies, into a foundational post-gender post-genre state. This book is the start of what hopefully will be a much longer conversation." — from the introduction by Julian T. Brolaski & erica kaufman.

• Author
• Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Erica Kaufman, E. Tracy Grinnell, Jen Hofer, Brenda Iijima, Reed Bye, Lisa Jarnot, Sherman Souther, Chris Martin, Kari Edwards, Donna de la Perriere, Bill Marsh, Wendy Kramer, Joan MacDonald, Rachel Levitsky, Joseph Lease, Eileen Myles, Cara Benson, Anne Waldman, Kevin Killian, Rob Halpern, C.A. Conrad, Yedda Morrison, Leslie Scalapino, Akilah Oliver, Ellen Redbird, Mark Brasuell, Marcus Civin, Eleni Stecopoulos, Michael Smoler, Frances Blau, Trace Peterson

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 208

• Publisher
• Litmus Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780981931012

• Genres
• poetry, gender

• Release date
• 2009