Grabbing Pussy [Paperback]

A celebrated performance artists mesmerizing riffs on sex in American politics.

Based on her widely praised performance pieceUnicorn Gratitude Mystery( Wickedly funny, as described byThe New York Times), Karen FinleysGrabbing Pussyexplores the Shakespearean dynamics that surface when libidos and loyalties clash in the public and private personas of Donald Trump, Hillary and Bill Clinton, Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner, and now Harvey Weinstein.

Standing in the tradition of Allen GinsbergsHowl, Finleys words jolt the reader into new insights about the ways the darkly private can drive the public realm in dizzying twists and turns. The aggression of intimacy, the disparity of gender, and the vital importance of hair are all encompassed in Finleys exhilarating canter.Finley is regularly performing, having just completed a sell-out run at Redcat in Los Angeles, and before that, a repeat run at the Laurie Beechman Theater in New York City. She will be reading from this book around publication as she travels across the country giving performances and talks.

Praise forGrabbing Pussy

InGrabbing Pussy(OR Books), performance artist and professor Karen Finley achieves the unthinkable: out of Americas unstoppable news cycle and its disturbing undercurrents of psychosexually charged politics, she forges poetry with a punk sensibility (plus, a dash of unfiltered raunchiness, in keeping with the times), skewering Donald Trump, the Clintons, Harvey Weinstein, and Anthony Weiner in the process. Reading the collectionespecially aloudin one sitting is akin to diving headfirst into a freezing body of water; one emerges refreshed, invigorated, and slightly shaken: brace yourself. Vanity Fair

Grabbing Pussydelivers on its promise, as both incisive political commentary and explosive, emotional, acerbic, gymnastic prose poetry. LA Weekly

With irreverent humor and sl%