Inclined to Riot

Kma Sullivan

ISBN 10: 1943977585 / ISBN 13: 9781943977581

Published by Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Inclined to Riot
• Publisher: Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1943977585
• ISBN 13: 9781943977581
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 14.81W x 0.41H x 21.01D centimeters 14.81 centimeters width by 0.41 centimeters height by 21.01 centimeters depth
• Weight: 95 grams

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Synopsis

Inclined to Riot, KMA Sullivan's second poetry collection, calls out and pushes against historical and interpersonal expectations which seek to contain, silence, erase the substance of a woman as anything other than mother, daughter, compliant lover. "I am cat-licked / wondering when durer's lions will consume me / or perhaps inkless today / you press in / I am embossed / your anonymous mother / your 17^th century prostitute." This rejection of imposed identity and circumscribed possibility is offered in lyric, fluid, sensual images as the poet walks through art galleries across the United States and Europe responding to classical and contemporary art which attempt to tell her who she is. She does not relent: "even in fragments / mouth open, nostrils flared / I am nomad, moon goddess, carbon smear / if wings sprouted from my face / I would not fly back." Instead, she emerges inclined to riot.