Plenitude

by Karasik, Daniel Sarah

• ISBN13: 9781771667357
• ISBN10: 1771667354
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2022-04-07
• Publisher: Book*hug Press

Summary

A non-binary faun wishes their body had a variety of sex organs, interchangeable daily. A prison abolitionist scrutinizes Rothko paintings on the carceral state's boardroom walls. The insurrectionary tactics of mass social movements spread, like a secret handshake, from Chile to Hong Kong to Toronto.

Shaped by Daniel Sarah Karasik's experience of grassroots social and political advocacy, these poems are an offering to those engaged in struggles for a better world—and an acknowledgement of the sometimes contradictory meanings of those struggles. How do individual erotic desires relate to collective desires for deliverance from alienation and exploitation? How might we dream of a more humane future, and work towards building it, without minimizing the challenges that stand in our way?

Plenitude cartwheels towards a world that might be: a world without cops or bosses, without prisons, without oppressive regulation of gender and desire. It is a song for the excluded and forgotten and those who struggle alongside them.

Author Biography

Daniel Sarah Karasik (they/them) is a writer and social movement worker in Toronto. They are the author of five previous books including Little Death, Hungry, and Faithful and Other Stories. A graduate of the Young Writers Programme at London's Royal Court and a former Playwright-in-Residence at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre, they've received the Toronto Arts Foundation's Emerging Artist Award, the CBC Fiction Prize, the Canadian Jewish Playwriting Award, among others. They are a co-founder and coordinator of the network Artists for Climate & Migrant Justice and Indigenous sovereignty.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
messianic time
sublimations
publics radiant incipience manifest energy make
work occupation
Kids My Age
In Manila
Despite
To Spite
burrow
A Box Policed
Rothko
Lupron
civility
health
wager
Among Other White Jews Regarding the Prophetic Tradition
MTwtf
Plenitude
trans-socialist
Dysphoria
Smoothed
Closet Exits
Camouflaged
hustle
Tight Pants
Tóngzhì
anything you want
the communist enby poem
Spilling Over
alienations
doing what you’re supposed to
A Sense of History
Where Teargas Won’t Reach
Spectacle
Transparency
Degenerate
either/or
warning
innocence isn’t the opposite of violence
Visible to Vanishing
taste
Crow
a simile is more honest than a metaphor thank you no questions at this time
portrait of the autist as a young whatever
containment
June to August
“tough but fair"
Place
Scratch
riding
justice
(rupture) lines
selfie as wish for Chile
on the day after a status-quo federal election in the Canadian state
flower or arm or bloom or hand
Against the Law
movement