Humans
- Sasha Amari Hawkins (author)
- Heidi Reszies (artist)
Page count
50Keywords
Poetry, Visual Poetry, Media, Film, TV, Television, Culture, Gender, Women, Women's Studies, Tropes, Stereotypes, Misogyny, ChapbookPublication date
2019Language(s)
EnglishPublication media type
Digital DocumentChapbook
Publication series
Digital Chapbook SeriesThese Deals Won’t Last Forever
These Deals Won’t Last Forever is a chapbook about watching and being watched. With influences ranging from the Elia Kazan-directed Baby Doll to episodes of WWF: Raw is War, it explores the roles of women within the power structures of popular film and television. This work is the consolidation media tropes across genres into three narratives, seeking to reveal some pattern in their destructive depictions of women and questioning authorial/audience complicity in their perpetuation.
About the Contributor(s)
Sasha Hawkins is a Phoenix, AZ based writer with a deep, abiding love for schlock films and professional wrestling. She is Managing Editor for The Volta, and has written for the University of Arizona Poetry Center blog.
The Operating System 2019 chapbooks, in both digital and print, feature art from Heidi Reszies. The work is from a series entitled “Collected Objects & the Dead Birds I Did Not Carry Home,” which are mixed media collages with encaustic on 8 x 8 wood panel, made in 2018. Heidi writes: “This series explores objects/fragments of material culture — how objects occupy space, and my relationship to them or to their absence.”
Heidi Reszies is a poet/transdisciplinary artist living in Richmond, Virginia. Her visual art is included in the National Museum of Women in the Arts CLARA Database of Women Artists. She teaches letterpress printing at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, and is the creator/curator of Artifact Press. Her poetry collection titled Illusory Borders is forthcoming from The Operating System in 2019. Her collection titled Of Water & Other Soft Constructions was selected by Samiya Bashir as the winner of the Anhinga Press 2018 Robert Dana Prize for Poetry (forthcoming in 2019). Find her at heidireszies.com.
