Episode 20: Kristin Prevallet
Rachel Zucker speaks with poet, hypnotherapist, teacher, workshop leader and activist Kristin Prevallet about teaching grammar in prisons, trancepoetics, hypnotherapy, radical femininity, retrograde meaning, and what it means to be a tender of the garden of language. They discuss Kristin’s new novel and new book on healing, teaching writing to non-writers, and the power of female sexuality.
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Books by Kristin Prevallet
Trace Poetics: Your Writing Mind (Wide Reality Books, 2013)
You, Resourceful: Return to Who You Want to Be (Wide Reality Books, 2012)
Everywhere Here and in Brooklyn (A Four Quartets) (Belladonna*, 2012)
I, Afterlife: Essay in Mourning Time (Essay Press, 2007)
Other Books/Artists/Thinkers/Makers Mentioned in the Episode
William James, The Figure of Consciousness (Routledge, 2014)
Hélène Cixious, “The Laugh of the Medusa” (Signs, Vol. 1, via Jstor)
Alice Notley, Mysteries of Small Houses (Penguin, 2008)
Karl Jung, The Red Book (W.W. Norton & Company, 2012)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (Dover Thrift Editions, 1994)
William Shakespeare, King Lear (Norton Critical Editions, 2007)
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication on the Rights of Women (Dover Thrift Editions, 1996)
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