
American Sex Tape
Jameka Williams
(Author)Description
Fiercely feminist, Black, American, and powerful, Williams speaks for a generation of obsessive social media influencers and consumers, revealing the complex ways in which we are all actors, witnesses, and victims in our public and private performances. Though we may be permanent residents of this soulless cultural landscape, this stunning collection refuses to let it define us.
I am not the same machine which came rambling
off the conveyor belt, hugging the bolts & wires
spilling from her vivisection. I'm last year's model
with a sleeker, softer system of cool disdain for
my Internet addictions.
--Excerpt from "I Intend to Outlast"
Product Details
Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press |
Publish Date | November 15, 2022 |
Pages | 88 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9780299340841 |
Dimensions | 8.8 X 6.8 X 0.4 inches | 0.3 pounds |
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Reviews
"Every now and then, but rarely, a book of poems comes along that is biblical in its authority and iconoclastic in its capacity to rearrange or explode the furniture, the nation, and the self. American Sex Tape(TM) is one of those."--Diane Seuss, author of frank: sonnets
"Split between a love of watching and the fear created by it, Jameka Williams demolishes misogynist, racist logic with weaponized line breaks and wrecking-ball wit. And then does something stranger, braver: she looks into the camera. Because this is a book about taking back power, it's also about the thin line between pleasure and collusion. 'I love to see it, ' she admits, 'I love to live inside that camera's orgasm.' Complex and messy and necessary in all the ways sex is, American Sex Tape(TM) is brilliant Black feminist truth."--Brian Teare
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