Sapphopunk

<p>Poetry. "SAPPHOPUNK is a vivid visceral experiment in 'somatic abundance ' a hybrid text blurring prose poetry history and theater. Set in a sensual imaginary academy hastain's text describes a teacher S who 'conjures cooperative thrive' among her female students. Their idyllic rituals are disrupted when S encounters Phaon an 'outcast' whose gender play disturbs the initiations S orchestrates. 'Can S conceive of a reason to transcend the anatomy of her academy?' asks hastain. What's at stake here is how to value lesbian literary history built on gender binaries while simultaneously writing queer literature that interrogates those binaries." Carol Guess"</p>