Hex & Howl

By Simone Muench and Jackie K White

"You and I were told to swallow / our hexed howling, refuse the reptilian // and the mammalian, unless it's tame, / you know, cow-eyed, with a roundness eager / for petting." A powerful evocation of the feminist voice, HEX & HOWL both applies and upends textuality and tradition, parsing and refuting prior masculinist treatments of women's bodies. The poems in this collection forge multi-vocalities, some exhibiting pleasure in the parameters of the sonnet, others designing new poetic architectures through the double and multiple voicings of centos and self-portraits.

"Now we do the refusing; now // we flame in the celluloid dark." HEX & HOWL is collaborative writing at its most innovative, playful, and powerful. Muench and White allow for the creation of a chimeric construction, a third-bodied poem that engages in language-play to explode notions of subjectivity, as the "I" and "you" and "we" shift and shimmer with agency and possibility beyond the page.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625570171
• ISBN13: 9781625570178
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Black Lawrence Press
• Length: 46 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.7"