{"id":751,"date":"2020-03-19T12:44:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T16:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/?p=751"},"modified":"2020-03-19T13:11:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T17:11:45","slug":"nuclear-waste-poetry-and-collage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/nuclear-waste-poetry-and-collage","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Waste: Poetry and Collage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"973\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/mary-hope-whitehead-lee-father-and-daughters.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-752\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/mary-hope-whitehead-lee-father-and-daughters.jpg 700w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/mary-hope-whitehead-lee-father-and-daughters-216x300.jpg 216w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/mary-hope-whitehead-lee-father-and-daughters-210x292.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption><em>Father and Daughters<\/em> by Mary Hope Whitehead Lee<br>7.76&#8243;x6&#8243;; found images on paper; 1994<br>Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2>Nuclear Waste: Poetry and Collage<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3>by Mary Hope Whitehead Lee<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A deeply personal exploration of the lived consequences of family violence. It is also the realization of a small handful of firsts: the writer\u2019s first published collection of poems, the artist\u2019s first published collection of collage art, and the neophyte bookmaker\u2019s first handmade book which was designed by Ryan Greene and hand-sewn and assembled by the poet-artist. The project was originally conceived in Oakland, California in 1994 and revived and printed as the second volume of F*%k if I Know, a Phoenix-based independent publisher whose works are housed at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palabrasbookstore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Palabras Bilingual Bookstore (opens in a new tab)\">Palabras Bilingual Bookstore<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"958\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/mary-hope-whitehead-lee-mother-and-son.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-753\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/mary-hope-whitehead-lee-mother-and-son.jpg 700w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/mary-hope-whitehead-lee-mother-and-son-219x300.jpg 219w, http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/mary-hope-whitehead-lee-mother-and-son-210x287.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption><em>Mother and Son<\/em> by Mary Hope Whitehead Lee<br> 7.76&#8243;x6&#8243;; found images on paper; 1994<br> Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>About the author:<\/em><br>Mary Hope Whitehead Lee began experimenting with poetry in 1969 and collage art in 1970. She and the book\u2019s designer, Ryan Greene, are active members of the Cardboard House Press Cartonera Collective, where they met in the spring of 2018. Her poetry, short fiction, and book &amp; arts reviews have appeared in <em>Plexus<\/em>, <em>This Bridge Called My Back<\/em>, <em>Callaloo<\/em>, <em>Chick-Lit: Postfeminist Fiction<\/em>, <em>Essence<\/em> magazine, <em>Language in Society<\/em>, <em>The Journal of Creole Studies<\/em>, and <em>Feminist Studies<\/em>, among others, and most recently in the inaugural edition of <em>Little Somethings Press<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Text adapted from the author&#8217;s press materials<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE BOOK<\/strong><br><em>Nuclear Waste: Poetry and Collage<\/em><br>by Mary Hope Whitehead Lee<br>48 pages<br>ISBN 978-1-7342-1310-2<br>$17 US<br>F*%k if I Know, Phoenix, Arizona; 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:maryhopewlee@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">EMAIL <\/a>the author to purchase the book. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Mary Hope Whitehead Lee<br \/>\nF*%k if I Know, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[48,68],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/mary-hope-whitehead-lee-father-and-daughters.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8O04t-c7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}