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9780872866911 English 0872866912 "If you haven't read this book yet--buy it, take it home, and read it now This is the work that made me get off my ass and actually do something, and it will inspire you, too."--Kathleen Hanna, singer, Bikini Kill, Le Tigre and The Julie Ruin""Shock Treatment" is as timely and crucial as ever, inspiring feminist rage and wildness just as when it first blew my mind twenty-five years ago."--Michelle Tea, author of "How to Grow Up""Karen Finley is an iconoclast who, ironically, became an icon when her work in "Shock Treatment" was targeted by right wing politicians. This important book is as necessary and vital today as it was twenty-years ago."--Sapphire, author of "Push," among other works"Reading "Shock Treatment" today reminds me that Karen Finley has always been a writer of conscience. I remember seeing and hearing her read "The Black Sheep" off a piece of legal paper in the middle of a play at The Kitchen. No frills. She simply re-invented the poem."--Eileen Myles, author of "Snowflake/different streets""How exciting for you, me, Karen, and the world--to have an occasion to revisit this period of powerful and earth-shaking work. Culture wars? Those bastards had no idea what they were up against."--Justin Vivian Bond, author of "Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels"Karen Finley is notorious, controversial and fearless in confronting taboos. "Shock Treatment "is her first book, published by City Lights in 1990, just as she became internationally famous for being denied an NEA grant due to perceived obscenity in her work. A collection of blistering monologues and essays, "Shock Treatment "captures the drama and fragility of the AIDS era and distills the emotional turmoil of that time.This twenty-fifth anniversary expanded edition features a new introduction in which Finley looks at legacies of censorship and the struggle for freedom of expression.Karen Finley is an internationally renowned performance artist, and the author of numerous books., Shock Treatment is Karen Finley's first book, published just as she became internationally famous for being denied an NEA grant because of perceived obscenity in her work. In it, she captures the drama and fragility of the AIDS era and distills the emotional turmoil of that time with excoriating monologues and essays. With a new introductory essay by the author.
9780872866911 English 0872866912 "If you haven't read this book yet--buy it, take it home, and read it now This is the work that made me get off my ass and actually do something, and it will inspire you, too."--Kathleen Hanna, singer, Bikini Kill, Le Tigre and The Julie Ruin""Shock Treatment" is as timely and crucial as ever, inspiring feminist rage and wildness just as when it first blew my mind twenty-five years ago."--Michelle Tea, author of "How to Grow Up""Karen Finley is an iconoclast who, ironically, became an icon when her work in "Shock Treatment" was targeted by right wing politicians. This important book is as necessary and vital today as it was twenty-years ago."--Sapphire, author of "Push," among other works"Reading "Shock Treatment" today reminds me that Karen Finley has always been a writer of conscience. I remember seeing and hearing her read "The Black Sheep" off a piece of legal paper in the middle of a play at The Kitchen. No frills. She simply re-invented the poem."--Eileen Myles, author of "Snowflake/different streets""How exciting for you, me, Karen, and the world--to have an occasion to revisit this period of powerful and earth-shaking work. Culture wars? Those bastards had no idea what they were up against."--Justin Vivian Bond, author of "Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels"Karen Finley is notorious, controversial and fearless in confronting taboos. "Shock Treatment "is her first book, published by City Lights in 1990, just as she became internationally famous for being denied an NEA grant due to perceived obscenity in her work. A collection of blistering monologues and essays, "Shock Treatment "captures the drama and fragility of the AIDS era and distills the emotional turmoil of that time.This twenty-fifth anniversary expanded edition features a new introduction in which Finley looks at legacies of censorship and the struggle for freedom of expression.Karen Finley is an internationally renowned performance artist, and the author of numerous books., Shock Treatment is Karen Finley's first book, published just as she became internationally famous for being denied an NEA grant because of perceived obscenity in her work. In it, she captures the drama and fragility of the AIDS era and distills the emotional turmoil of that time with excoriating monologues and essays. With a new introductory essay by the author.