Fist coming January 2022
Minerva Rising Press 2020 Chapbook Contest Winner is Fist by Emily Wall. The contest was judged by Monica Prince, author of How to Exterminate the Black Woman: A Choreopoem ([PANK], 2020), Instructions for Temporary Survival (Red Mountain Press, 2019), and Letters from the Other Woman (Grey Book Press, 2018). Fist is part of a trilogy of chapbooks written in the voices of three powerful and influential women: Mary, mother of Jesus, artist Georgia O’Keeffe, and chef and food activist Alice Waters.
Fist comes to us in the voice of artist Georgia O’Keeffe. In this chapbook, O’Keeffe offers readers details of her life—as an artist, as a wife to a man who both helped and harmed her, and as an older woman who found her spiritual home. Each poem is ekphrastic, written in response to pieces of her art; epistolic, in homage to the many letters she wrote during her lifetime; and persona, based on factual events and experiences.
Fist by Emily Wall
$10.00
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