Hex & Howl

<p>You and I were told to swallow / our hexed howling refuse the reptilian // and the mammalian unless it's tame / you know cow-eyed with a roundness eager / for petting. A powerful evocation of the feminist voice HEX & HOWL both applies and upends textuality and tradition parsing and refuting prior masculinist treatments of women's bodies. The poems in this collection forge multi-vocalities some exhibiting pleasure in the parameters of the sonnet others designing new poetic architectures through the double and multiple voicings of centos and self-portraits.</p><p><br></p><p>Now we do the refusing; now // we flame in the celluloid dark. HEX & HOWL is collaborative writing at its most innovative playful and powerful. Muench and White allow for the creation of a chimeric construction a third-bodied poem that engages in language-play to explode notions of subjectivity as the I and you and we shift and shimmer with agency and possibility beyond the page.</p><p><br></p>