Furniture Music

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In Furniture Music, Montreal luminary Gail Scott chronicles her years in Lower Manhattan during the Obama era, in a community of poets at the junction between formally radical and political art.

Immersing herself in a New York topography that includes St. Marks Poetry Project and the Bowery Poetry Club, Scott writes from a Northern awareness that is both immediate and inquisitive, from Obamas election to Occupy Wall Street and Hurricane Sandy. Here, readers are situated in conversations around citizenship, gender performance, class, race, feminism and what it means to write now. Scotts project is polyvocal, also resonating with the voices of a host of earlier writers and philosophers, notably, Gertrude Stein, Viktor Shklovsky, Walter Benjamin. The result is a staggering work of insight and hope during a critical time in American politics and art.

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Gail Scottis the author ofPermanent Revolution(Book*Hug Press, 2021), which was a finalist for the2021 Grand Prix du livre de Montreal,Spare Parts(Coach House, 1981),Heroine(Coach House, 1987, re-issued in 2019 with an introduction by Eileen Myles by Nightboat),Main Brides(Talonbooks, 1993),My Paris(Dalkey Archive, 1999),Spare Parts Plus Two(Coach House, 2002), andThe Obituary(Coach House, 2010; Nightboat 2012). Her essays are collected inSpaces Like Stairs(Womens Press, 1989) and inLa Thorie, un dimanche(1988) which was translated into English asTheory, A Sunday(Belladonna, 2013). Scott is co-editor of the New Narrative anthology:Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative(Coach House, 2004). Her translation of Michael DelislesLe dsarroi du matelotwas shortlisted for a 2001 Governor Generals Literary Award.