Inga Muscio

Gen-X feminist Inga Muscio wrote
"CUNT: A Declaration of Independence".
That's a hard act to follow,
but she tries womonfully in her second book,
"AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BLUE-EYED DEVIL:
My Life and Times in a Racist, Imperialist Society".

At San Francisco's leading queer bookshop, A Different Light,
she read from Devil on 29 July 2005.

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Here are a few comments (NOT a review),
by a Native American feminist:

I took No-Doz before arriving,
as I expected the usual opaque "theory" which un-enlivens progressive discourse.
But there was little of that stuff, at least in the pieces which she chose to read aloud.

At first she seemed shy, and her voice was too soft.
As she read, her confidence and volume gradually increased.
By the time she orated her love for America
(because America produced Malcolm X),
she had blossomed into a poetry-slammer.

Her writing is most impressive
when she sticks to her own experiences,
and those of people whom she has actually known or met.


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