All Day I Dream About Sirens
By (Author) Domenica Martinello
Coach House Books
Coach House Books
17th July 2019
Canada
General
Non Fiction
Feminism and feminist theory
C811/.6
Paperback
104
Width 127mm, Height 203mm
What started as a small sequence of poems about the Starbucks logo grew to monstrous proportions after the poet fell under a siren spell herself. All Day I Dream About Sirens is both an ancient reverie and a screen-induced stupor as these poems reckon with the enduring cultural fascination with siren and mermaid narratives as they span geographies, economies, and generations, chronicling and reconfiguring the male-centered epic and womens bodies and subjectivities.
Domenica Martinello is a writer from Montral, Quebec. She was a finalist for the 2017 Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers and holds an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers Workshop, where she was the recipient of the Deena Davidson Friedman Prize for Poetry. All Day I Dream About Sirens is her first book.