Liontaming in America
Book - 2024
""To disrupt the relationship of predator and prey, to reshape one's relation to power, is to renovate the lived and living world," Elizabeth Willis writes in this visionary work that delves deep into the ancient enchantments of the circus and its timeless disciplinary displays. Liontaming in America investigates the utopian aspirations fleetingly enacted in the polyamorous life of a nineteenth-century religious community, interweaving archival and personal threads with the histories of domestic labor, extraction economies, and the performance of family in theater, film, and everyday life. Lines reverberate between worldliness and devotion, between Peter Pan and Close Encounters, between Paul Robeson and Maude Adams, bet...ween leaps of faith and passionate alliances, between everyday tragedy and imaginative social possibility. As Willis writes in her afterword to the book, "The repeated unmaking and remaking of America, as a concept and as an ongoing textual project, is not impossible. It is happening all the time.""--
- Subjects
- Genres
- Poetry
- Published
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New York, NY :
New Directions Publishing Corporation
2024.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Item Description
- "A New Directions paperbook original."
- Physical Description
- 320 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBN
- 9780811238632
- The End
- The End
- The First Division of Labor
- She Who Wrote
- Letter to the Corinthians
- Lost in Space
- God is a Problem in the Reverb
- Nativity
- Nothing Up My Sleeve
- Castaways
- The Poor Will Inherit Outer Space
- … Because the Rich Will Not Relinquish their Real Estate
- Free Will or Design
- In the Beginning of the End
- The Shipwrecked Man
- Object Relations
- Randomness & Inevitability
- Settler Time
- Settler Time 1.0
- A Region May Be Defined
- O Pioneer
- Arrivants
- A Coin is a Map to a Beheading
- The Artist in His Museum
- Liontaming in America
- Mr. Washington, Mr. Barnum & Ms. Heth
- Systems in Pointing
- Motion Pictures
- The Cinema Has Always Been Interested in God
- The Next Voice You Hear (1950)
- Yes Yes Yes
- Joe Smith, American (1942)
- The Perils of Pauline (1914)
- Boy
- The Burned-Over District
- Father, I Am Burning
- The Smiths of Palmyra
- See this then
- What Appeared in the Gaslight
- It
- Boy Clothed in Prose
- Into Egypt
- The Fields at Fayette
- Writing Translating Church
- Interpretation of Dreams
- In Lucy's Dream
- In Her Husband's Dream
- White Dream
- Evidence of Things Not Seen
- And then There He Was, As if Everybody Knew His Name
- Alias Mr. Smith
- Mr. Quincy & Mr. Adams
- Liberty Jail
- Gen. Smith's Views
- Out Like a Lamb
- Mr. Smith, Mr. Young, Mr. Price, Mr. Power
- Both Roads
- The Lion of the Lord
- [sic]
- Settler Time 2.0
- The Snows of Yesteryear
- Miss Snow & Mrs. Smith
- Miss Snow & Mrs. Young
- Matoaka & Mrs. Rolfe
- Matoaka & Mrs. Rolfe
- Friendly Fire
- United Disorder
- Mr. & Mrs. Rolfe
- In the Sky with Diamonds
- Passing Strange
- Correction
- Finding Aid
- Uncategorical Feelings
- Habeas Corpus
- It's Complicated
- The Misses Partridge
- The Sisters Smith & Their Occasions
- Uncategorical Feeling
- Miss Snow & Miss Huntington
- Miss Huntington, Mrs. Jacobs, Mrs. Smith & Mrs. Young
- What Did the Men Do
- Mrs. Jacobs & Mrs. Smith
- Father Mother
- Your Friend as She is in Heaven
- Never Say Higher or Lower
- Twin Evils or Evil Twins
- The Indignation Meeting
- Miss Manning & Mrs. James
- Miss Manning
- By What Means Game Jane unto the Beautiful Plantation
- Miss Manning @ the Smiths
- Mrs. James & Mrs. Sessions
- Miss James & Miss Kidd
- Bird House
- Peregrinations
- Mr. Sessions
- Perrigrine's Dream
- Bed Govers
- Types of Secrets
- To Be Longing
- Mr. Sessions & Mr. Smith
- Interlude
- Miss Adams, Mrs. Cobb & Mrs. Young; Or, The Angel of the Church At Salt Lake; Her Alien, Her Proxy
- The Lion and the Bee
- Coin of the Realm
- Miss Adams & Mrs. Cobb
- Mrs. Young & Mrs. Kirby
- The Adams Family
- The Adams Family
- Little Maude Adams
- Once upon a Time in the West
- Another Other
- The Lost Child
- Deus Ex Machina
- Hereafter
- Maude Adams as Saint Joan (1909)
- Come in, Houston
- Never
- My Favorite
- The Writing on the Wall
- The Writing on the Wall
- Fiery Furnace
- If a Lion Spoke
- Because it is Absurd
- Portraits and Repetition
- The Circus
- Mr. Wombwell
- The Whip and the Chair
- Polly of the Circus (1917,1932)
- Mr. Roberts
- Mr. Roberts
- The Dark Tower
- Representative
- Mr. Roberts, Mr. Schroeder & Mr. Heist
- The Armada
- Advise and Consent (1962)
- Sometimes
- Sometimes it Causes Me to Tremble
- The Continuous Present
- Old Man River
- The Union & the Divide
- Super Flumina Babylonis
- Huck
- Crossroads
- Entrepôt
- Pioneer 2.0
- Friday
- American Argument (1949)
- Friend & Fellow Worker
- The Ballad of Joe Hill
- For a Profit
- Friend & Fellow Worker
- Miss Snow & Mrs. Stephen
- There is a Balm
- Close Encounters
- Close Encounters (1977)
- Look Again
- Transformational Grammar
- Alien Corn
- Earthwork
- Labyrinth
- The War Dead
- Earthwork
- Divine Comedies
- Future Imperfect
- Anon
- I Didn't Invent the World
- Anything Goes
- 1-15
- Peculiar People
- Anything Goes
- Unfinished Ramp
- At the Sound of the Bell
- Genesis
- The Writing on the Wall
- Sometimes
- Futures
- Mood Indigo
- Here
- Author's Note
- The Words of Others Are Inside Me
- List of Images
- Acknowledgments