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POETRY
104 Pages, 6 x 9
Formats: Trade Paper
Trade Paper, $20.00 (US $20.00) (CA $27.00)
Publication Date: March 2019
ISBN 9781931824804
Rights: WOR
Roof Books (Mar 2019)
If the lyric tradition and literary history were a punk show then Sara Larsen’s The Riot Grrrl Thing would be a leather jacket-wearing, zine-making, raspy-voiced cry “girls to the front!” It was the 90s in Philly and New Jersey; it was Ancient Greece, traversing and transcending time and space; “it was messy. It was art. It was libidinal.” The Riot Grrrl Thing is what happens when women revolt, refuse to be managed, and instead “crash in RAGE WAVES” against a world rife with violence and constraint, against a realism that is “really hard / and rather / unsatisfactory.” This collection is riotous in every capacity: both a hilarious, blunt reflection and an incisive political disturbance of the status quo.
Sara Larsen is the author of THE RIOT GRRRL THING (Roof Books, 2019), MERRY HELL, and All Revolutions Will Be Fabulous. She is also the author of several chapbooks including Riot Cops En Route To Troy and The Hallucinated, among others. With David Brazil, she edited over sixty issues of the literary zine TRY! from 2008 to 2011. She lives in the Bay Area.