Adeena Karasick, Salome: Woman of Valor

From acclaimed New York-based Canadian poet, Adeena Karasick, comes Gap Riot Press’ second chapbook, Salome: Woman of Valor.

Salome: Woman of Valor includes poems from Karasick’s Italian-English libretto of the same name. The poems explore, exalt, and reclaim the figure of Salome as feminist. The poems enjoy joyful linguistic play, using references to Hebrew texts, popular music, Italian opera, and various other texts to reveal a feminine form that refuses to be a static object, dancing, praying, and fighting for herself.