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GCDS-9780872862524 02 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100631050 02 0872862526 03 9780872862524 15 9780872862524 BC 1 A01 Finley, Karen Karen Finley 01 eng 128 01 <P>Shock Treatment includes Karen Finley's most provocative and acclaimed performance monologues, essays, and poems, with "The Constant State of Desire," "We Keep Our Victims Ready," "It's Only Art," and "The Black Sheep." Excoriating misogyny, homophobia, abusive families, greed, and state coercion of bodies and minds, Finley holds out hope for a world informed not by hate and fear, but by truth and unconditional love.</P> 02 Shock Treatment includes Karen Finley's most provocative and acclaimed performance monologues, essays, and poems, with "The Constant State of Desire," "We Keep Our Victims Ready," "It's Only Art," and "The Black Sheep." Excoriating misogyny... 08 &quot;Obscenity is Finley's subject-not four letter words but the emotion propelling them. Her monologues expose unspeakable acts and unforgivable feelings, deconstructing relationships into the most primal urges.&quot; C. Carr, <em>The Village Voice</em> 08 &quot;Karen Finley is one of the most relentlessly independent and visceral performances artists of her generation.&quot; <em>Los Angeles Times</em> 08 &quot;In a decade when most artists- painters, writers, performance people- have freely elected to make their work in order to gross money and court popularity, Finley has chosen: Not only to criticize this society defined by fear, or greed (the other side of fear). But also to explore that which is most dangerous for women to explore: our own sexualities which in our public history men have used to define us and so to attempt to control us. Finley is a courageous and charismatic performer, writer, and explorer.&quot; Kathy Acker 04 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100631050/images/87286100631050L.gif 07 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100631050/images/87286100631050S.gif http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100631050 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 30 01 02 11.95 USD