{"id":1266,"date":"2023-11-20T18:31:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T18:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/goldlinepress\/?page_id=1266"},"modified":"2023-11-21T22:28:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T22:28:37","slug":"as-i-said-a-dissent","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/goldlinepress\/as-i-said-a-dissent\/","title":{"rendered":"AS I SAID: A DISSENT"},"content":{"rendered":" \n\n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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ISBN: 978-1-938900-43-3
\nPublication date: Summer 2022
\n116 pages, 7\u201d x 9.5\u201d
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SYNOPSIS<\/strong><\/p>\n

In As I Said: A Dissent<\/em>, Abby Minor rejects the vacated terms of the conventional “abortion debate.” Instead, these polyvocal poems explore the \u201cexquisite business\u201d of inheritance, embodiment, justice, and citizenship. Anchored by a documentary study of the infamous nineteenth-century abortion provider Madame Restell, Minor\u2019s dissent deftly interweaves historical documents and oral interviews with frank details of contemporary Appalachian life. As I Said<\/em> eludes the instrumentalization of reproductive storytelling in favor of becoming \u201caperture \/ at once seeing \/ and being ajar.\u201d<\/p>\n

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FOOTAGE can break or snap
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I roll it up
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I, to be clear, being
\nlost & still, am a poet camera-<\/p>\n

person philosopher archival
\nvaginal comedian & if anyone<\/p>\n

notices any peculiarity
\nabout my nipples, well\u2014<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t really wonder what is
\n<\/i>a film noir, I already have 500<\/p>\n

,000 pairs of high heels & I\u2019m
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eye, myself,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

but have you heard<\/p>\n

of a floral radiograph? I\u2019d like<\/p>\n

to make a feature-
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would be a silent film, & the title
\ncards would go\u00a0\u00a0 ONCE<\/p>\n

in a black silk gown, Once
\nin a white satin bonnet, Once
\nin a heavy lace veil\u2014
\nOnce in a private April, Once
\nshe was a clean cord of smoke\u2014<\/p>\n

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PRAISE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Abby Minor\u2019s As I Said: A Dissent<\/em> is a brilliant deep dive into intertwined histories between poet and subject and arrives on the heels of ruinous antiabortion rulings, certainly making this a reading of our daily tea leaves. I love this wild ride of soft beauty and harsh realities through the tabloid hell of nineteenth-century New York City and the poet\u2019s own Appalachia. And I applaud Minor, a poet with the guts to humanize \u201cthe wickedest woman in New York.\u201d<\/p>\n

-Brenda Coultas, author of The Tatters<\/em><\/p>\n

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Abby Minor writes lines that dance and leap, each a necessary testament to a life planted in the ridges of Appalachia and reaching back to the nits of New York tenements. Maximalist miner at the microfilm machine, at the interview, at personal memory and public myth, she challenges oppression with a wink: nimble humor and no-joke, vulnerable commitments to beauty and truth. This book matters\u2014not least because it is a deep pleasure to read, satisfying in its art and surprising in its generosity and range of engagement.<\/p>\n

-Julia Spicher Kasdorf, author of Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n

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AUTHOR<\/strong><\/p>\n

Abby Minor<\/strong><\/a> lives in the ridges and valleys of central Pennsylvania, where she works on poems, essays, and projects exploring reproductive politics. Granddaughter of Appalachian tinkerers and Yiddish-speaking New Yorkers, she teaches poetry in her region\u2019s low-income nursing homes and has worked as a seamstress, server, university writing instructor, produce truck driver, studio assistant, and roadie. In 2018 she was awarded Bitch Media\u2019s Writing Fellowship in Sexual Politics. She serves on the Board of Abortion Conversation Projects; is author of the chapbooks Real Words for Inside (Gap Riot Press) and Plant Light, Dress Light (dancing girl press); and directs an arts education nonprofit called Ridgelines Language Arts.<\/p>\n

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