new from above/ground press: DOCTOR SHAMAN, by Susan Gevirtz

DOCTOR SHAMAN
Susan Gevirtz
$5

Origin is a practice of revision

Diagnosis a practice of reception, a social event a place of encounter

You are changed by attendance
The event changed by your presence         


The commentators say the relation with the text is NATAN, a palindrome  

It changes while you read it     You are read while you read it

The text needs us
–you don’t just take from it

You give to it  -- It takes from us

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
as the twenty-sixth title in above/ground’s prose/naut imprint
November 2024
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Susan Gevirtz is the author of nine books of poetry, most recently Burns (Pamenar 2022), Hotel abc (Nightboat, 2016) and Aerodrome Orion & Starry Messenger (Kelsey Street, 2010). Her critical books are Coming Events (Collected Writings) (Nightboat, 2013), and Narrative’s Journey: The Fiction and Film Writing of Dorothy Richardson (Peter Lang, 1996). She was associate editor of HOW(ever), a journal of modernist/innovative directions in women’s poetry and scholarship, and served on the advisory board for its successor, the online journal HOW2. In 2004, with poet and restorer of maritime antiquities, Siarita Kouka, she founded the Paros Symposium, an annual meeting of Greek and Anglophone poets. Gevirtz was Assistant Professor at Sonoma State University, California, for ten years, and subsequently taught in the Visual and Critical Studies and MFA programs at California College of the Arts, as well as in undergrad Writing and Visual Studies. She is currently a writing mentor through Prison Renaissance and Operation Restoration. She is based in San Francisco.

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