{ "item_title" : "The Visible Woman", "item_author" : [" Allison Funk "], "item_description" : "In The Visible Woman , Allison Funk writes of how women often disappear into the roles expected of them, becoming invisible to themselves. To fill in the thin / chalk outline of herself that she's drawn and erased for as long as she can remember, Funk returns to the anatomical model of The Visible Woman she left unassembled as a child. With poems rather than the kit's plastic organs and bones, she strives to create a likeness / to embody herself. In her efforts at self-representation, the poet is guided by the visual artist Louise Bourgeois- her real-life model of a woman who proved that art gives us a way of recognizing ourselves. In The Visible Woman , with the care of a surgeon closing a wound, Allison Funk stitches together the scars of memory, loss, and grief, reclaiming a voice and visibility against a patriarchal erasure of women. In the care of her deft hands and uncompromising vision, I find myself not stunned into silence, but startled into the desire to advocate, to speak. - Jenny Molberg In the beautifully crafted, urgent poems of The Visible Woman , Allison Funk probes the layers of the conflicted self: the artist in relation to her body. Hers is a story of how we disappear, but like the black hole she is drawn to, which emits the oldest, longest, lowest note in the universe, the poet sings herself into sight. - Cleopatra Mathis The exquisite poems in Allison Funk's latest collection address the burdens and blessings of a woman's flesh. In it, her attention moves from a child's discomfort with a plastic Visible Woman to the brave self-exposure of a woman artist painting her own nudity. This is a collection to return to on our own body's journey from the womb to the necessary relinquishing of the visible. - Marjorie Stelmach Like her brilliant mentor and muse Louise Bourgeois- whose Cells series of installations might almost be a palimpsest for The Visible Woman - Allison Funk brings to each poem/cell a superlative physical awareness; but whatever she writes also brims, as for Bourgeois, with psychic content that, however subtly presented, is more than merely arresting. Funk operates on an existential knife-edge, and, the reader is privileged to behold ...the writer/ nearly done for, creating a likeness/ to embody herself.- Sydney Lea Allison Funk is the author of five previous books of poems, including Wonder Rooms , from Free Verse Editions of Parlor Press. The recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize, and the Society of Midland Authors Poetry Prize, she is a Professor Emerita at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/64/317/193/1643171933_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "15.95", "online_price" : "15.95", "our_price" : "15.95", "club_price" : "15.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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