Cronk, Olivia: Womonster

Tarpaulin Sky, paperback Publication Date: July 7, 2020 Publisher Marketing: Taking the form of two long poems, "Interro-Porn" and "Chenille," WOMONSTER explores the often monstrous and buffoonish impossibility of a coherent self, even as its speakers take great pleasure in the performance of selves. Everywhere absorbing and leaking other media, WOMONSTER is a "sloppy" text, at once nauseating and thrilling, psychedelic and domestic. "Olivia Cronk's WOMONSTER is a performative feat, a book that makes being out of pretending... I was thrilled and moved by this wild book, which moves from an explosive rejection of narrative to the creation of a theater of home, that shabby, beautiful structure built with girly hope, our fortification against loss."—Suzanne Scanlon "With WOMONSTER, Olivia Cronk shows that we are other people as much as we are our various selves. We are the people who share our lives; we are our loved ones and our aggressors. If this makes us monsters, then everyone's a mo