Suchergebnisse

The book-length poem titled 'admit the joyous passion of revolt', which comprises the practice component of this MFA, is a durational long-form piece written over four years across 75 A5 pages in which I make a linguistic exploration of labour, care, solidarity, gender and bodies, drawing on my subjectivity as a non-white cis woman and worker in an arts industry subsidised by the unpaid labour of a largely female workforce, to open up a space that explores gendered and embodied experiences of life under neoliberal capitalism. The paper component argues how this poem forms an extension of a decades-long tradition of poets and Marxist-feminists of previous generations, emphasising the intergenerational quality intrinsic to Marxist-feminist poetics. I then set out the theoretical underpinnings of my poetry: identifying the thematic qualities of Marxist-feminist poetics as concerned with waged and unwaged domestic work, gender race and bodies, I chart cartographies of Marxist-feminism (vis-a-vis Rosi Braidotti), establishing the temporal spaces that form the basis of this thesis. Next, I give close readings of sections from Bernadette Mayer's Midwinter Day and Diane di Prima's Revolutionary Letters, providing a literary analysis of the aesthetics and subjectivities that constitute Marxist-feminist poetics. I read these poems alongside my own practice, as someone who writes in the space and tradition of those poets who have come before me, intertwined with a politics and ethics of solidarity, care, labour struggles. In this chapter I show how my poetry practice contributes an aesthetic and political intervention into the fields of Marxist-feminist scholarship and contemporary poetry through its aesthetic qualities as well as through the conditions of the poem's production. I conclude by reiterating the parameters and conditions of Marxist-feminist poetics and its generative possibilities for the field of poetry, feminism and anticapitalism.