Doubiago, Sharon

The Husband Arcane. The Arcane of O

ISBN: 0931122252
Mendocino, CA: Performance Poets Series, 1996. First Edition. Signed by Sharon Doubiago. “My impression was that she was a dizzy blonde and I don't like women writers…[Then] I was amazed by her reading. This whole soul came out and in detail and quite complete. She was very conscious. I didn't realize. She sounded like Kerouac or someone. Like really good. Good prose. The energy, but it's more the details, precise details. It's not just a lot of gushing. Doubiago saw things, she notices things in the middle of these crisis moments…”--Allen Ginsberg, Naropa, Boulder, Colorado. Sharon Doubiago (b. 1941) is the author of eleven collections of award-winning poetry, including the recent Naked to the Earth. Psyche Drives the Coast won the Oregon Book Award for Poetry. She’s a recipient of three Pushcart Prizes, two Oregon Literary Arts Fellowships, and is a National Book Award nominee. She’s written four book-length poems, South America Mi Hija, The Husband Arcane, The Arcane of O, and The Visit. Her four award-winning memoirs are The Book of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes, El Nino, My Father’s Love, Vols 1 &2. My Beard is memoir in the form of individual stories rather than the on-going narrative of traditional memoir. Offered today is Doubiago’s 1996 epic poem, The Husband Arcane. The Arcane of O. A book-length poem, The Husband Arcane. The Arcane of O, focuses on and indeed is inspired by the O.J. Simpson trial. Sharon Doubiago wakes up in the body of O.J. Simpson to answer “why does she stay?” Transgressive, dark, unflinchingly honest, and distinctly feminist, The Husband Arcane is a brutally underrated and underappreciated volume from one of the great poets of the 1970’s. Also included is the interview: At Last, An Evocation For The White Girls, an interview with Sharon Doubiago on the inspiration for the book and the events surrounding it. From the archive of Thomas Rain Crowe, the legendary American poet and co-authorial founder of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. For more information on the Thomas Rain Crowe archive (assembled & curated by Third Mind Books), see our book Starting From San Francisco: Thomas Rain Crowe in Conversation with Third Mind Books (item #3071) & the catalog for the Crowe archive (see item #1010), which contains several excerpts and quotations from the book as well as a full listing of the archive’s contents, which are now being offered for sale individually on the Third Mind Books site. Signed in thin black ink at title page by the author an inscription reads: “For Thomas Rain Crowe, to love. Sharon Doubiago. April, 29, 96.” Softcover. First edition though not explicated as such at copyright page, presumed first printing though similarly not explicated. Book is in very fine condition with only minimal wear to fine edges and minor smudging to front and back covers. Very Fine. [Item #7344]

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