Admit the Joyous Passion of Revolt

How much time and energy does it take to fall in love? Or rinse mottled wings? Does Alexandra Kollontai represent a spectre of utopian promises or merely a blank space for fantasies of desire and revolution? This series of poems takes us through nineties socialist science fiction family abolition mulberry lipstick shirts cardigans maxi dresses hyenas quitting work and spells cast with yeast extract. It is poetry for girls poetry for communism; its poetry for history and for the impossible future.Elena Gomez is a poet and editor living in Melbourne. She has written a number of chapbooks and a full-length collection Body of Work.