Sirens
TONI OSWALD
A feminist manifesto — call it an adult children’s book — is made for dark times to warn us that only love can carry us through the shattered feminine, ecocide, violence, and the mystical.
ISBN: 978-0578773940
Hybrid Poetry – 7 x 10 inches
TONI OSWALD
A feminist manifesto — call it an adult children’s book — is made for dark times to warn us that only love can carry us through the shattered feminine, ecocide, violence, and the mystical.
ISBN: 978-0578773940
Hybrid Poetry – 7 x 10 inches
TONI OSWALD
A feminist manifesto — call it an adult children’s book — is made for dark times to warn us that only love can carry us through the shattered feminine, ecocide, violence, and the mystical.
ISBN: 978-0578773940
Hybrid Poetry – 7 x 10 inches
PRAISE FOR SIRENS
“This is extraordinary! Reading it out loud with my boyfriend, he said he loves surrealism, but I think this book is a form of magic revealed. Toni Oswald's poems are so unique and brilliant, they deserve a cult following! I will join that cult, and do whatever the poems tell me to do!”
—CA Conrad, author of While Standing in Line for Death
Toni Oswald
Writer, musician, performer, filmmaker, and visual artist.
AUTHOR BIO
Toni Oswald is a writer, musician, performer, filmmaker, and visual artist who currently lives in Boulder, Colorado with her partner Max Davies and their cats Kiki Pamplemousse Fontaine and Charlie Chaplin. Her work has been shown in Los Angeles, Amsterdam and New York. She has performed across the United States and Europe with Anne Waldman, John Frusciante, Max Davies, Thurston Moore, Lydia Lunch, Cecilia Vicuna, Josh Klinghoffer, and many others.
Toni's underground rock journalism has been published in magazines here and abroad, along with literary work in The Oyez Review. Tattered Press, and Bombay Gin. She is currently working on a novel about a fourteen-year-old girl clown set in the 1950's entitled, The Gorgeous Funeral. Her hybrid poetry book Sirens is forthcoming in November (2020) from Gesture Press.
SIRENS
A girl born a bird becomes a Her. Traversing trauma, ecocide, violence, magic, and the rise of the shattered feminine, Sirens is a wake-up song sung by the daughters of earth.
“Is anything lost ever found?” they ask the collective we. After falling through space, a girl is born part bird who becomes a Her. Her floats and flies—spins the loom of women’s work—baking blue pies, hopping trains, and working as a call girl. Through the tapestries of surrealist landscapes, mystical mantras, and shadowed logos, the story of Her is the story of us, and the emergency of the feminine’s urgent cry to wake up.
Mixing “one part madness, one part genius, blood and sulphur,” Sirens is a feminist manifesto for dark times, warning us that only love will carry us over and beyond life’s most difficult verbs.