This book collects all seventeen poems featuring the philosophy, life hacks, and adventures of Jean Savage, the heroine of the author’s avant garde science fiction novel Savage Night, as well as several short stories which also explore the potential of this rhetorical anima. Violent, erotic, polemical, and mystical by turns, these texts define a poetics of self-actualization and anticapitalist defiance in a mass media ecosphere using images of magic, sexuality, nature, paganism, graffiti, and crime. Something of a cross between a song of self and a rant against the machine, these works offer an obsessive, personal, and rhythmic cleansing and revenge, constructing a hermitage and then defending it from society’s commercial, hierarchical, and fraudulent tendencies.
Savage Magic is the companion volume to Savage Space, which continues the exploits of Jean Savage in a series of experimental prose poems exploring the effect of space travel on human social and sexual evolution.
Details
- Publication Date
- May 4, 2016
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781329931589
- Category
- Poetry
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): Jeff Bagato
Specifications
- Pages
- 74
- Binding
- Perfect Bound
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Dimensions
- Small Square (7.5 x 7.5 in / 190 x 190 mm)