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Crop By Yedda Morrison Poems 88 pages $11 ISBN: 0-932716-65-2
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Yedda Morrison's first book, CROP, heralds a remarkable new voice for the politically engaged poetic. Under Morrison's relentless scrutiny, an entire teeming universe peopled by "cherry pickers" and others comes alive. CROP probes and reinvents the contradictory logics of capitalism, (re) production and gender without succumbing to polemic, "she----general defused female violence inviter---diminished double-----blue throated." Laboring against our expectations, Morrison assembles poems of richness, commitment and astonishing humor.
"From insecticide to plastic heels, no one has explored the disturbing intimacies
between persons and things that arise in a system of exploited labor with as much
insight as Yedda Morrison. Addressed to a world in which everything is brutally
functionalized, her poetry unflinchingly confronts the violence behind the production of the
sweet. One of the most original and aesthetically powerful books I have read in years."
-Sianne Ngai
"In the future, historians will look back and wonder why the year 2003 marked a paradigm
shift for poetry. Dozens of concurrent events aided this shift, but Yedda Morrison's first
book CROP, showed us how poetry can be made interchangeable with activism."
-Kevin Killian