Books: Women Concrete Poets Who Pushed Against the Limits of Language (and Patriarchy)

Tired of your old recipes? Now might be a good time to check out Buckminster Fuller's Synergetic Stew

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Tired of your old recipes? Now might be a good time to check out Buckminster Fuller’s Synergetic Stew, a zany collection that offers some unique insights on the revered multi-disciplinarian (and his kitchen habits). Cassie Packard also dives into a new anthology focused on the radical work of women concrete poets. While you’re at it, check out Kate Silzer’s take on the youthful, feminine utopias of Justine Kurland. Happy reading.– Dessane Lopez Cassell, Editor, Reviews

Women Concrete Poets Who Pushed Against the Limits of Language (and Patriarchy) Focusing on 50 artist-writers often overshadowed by their male contemporaries, Women in Concrete Poetry breaks from more traditional histories, much like the innovative figures featured. Cassie Packard

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Justine Kurland’s Female Utopia In Girl Pictures, the photographer presents a seductive fantasy of a world in which being a young woman is not cause for fear but a source of boundless freedom. Kate Silzer

Buckminster Fuller's Delightfully Idiosyncratic Recipes Re-issued on the 125th anniversary of his birth, Synergetic Stew is a document of a magical life of heady science matched only by Fuller’s penchant for “light, wild things.” Andrea Gyorody

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