Publisher's Synopsis
Poetry. Women's Studies. 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 monster.--Jay Besemer
Cronk's writing is forensically spooky... We are brought closer to Cronk's territory of occult sadomasochistic desire. WOMONSTER is both a hyper-abject soap opera of beige underwear, dusty crystal, sinks full of bloodied dishes, and a redemptive horror story about the power of becoming the monster.--Laura Ellen Joyce
Olivia Cronk is one of my favorite US poets over the past 15 years. WOMONSTER is something like Lars Noren's Revolver rewritten with Ouija board.--Johannes Göransson
