{"product_id":"woman-pissing-paperback-softback-9781496231444","title":"Woman Pissing (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496231444","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWoman Pissing\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eElizabeth Cooperman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496231444\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 September 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e192 pages, 9 illustrations, 1 appendix\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“This is a fiercely feminist book in the best sense, carving out a space for a female intelligence and decimating certain kinds of male productivity\/surety. Cooperman has found her own form and managed to create a remarkable book-howlingly sad, oddly joyous, and persuasively devoted to a wayward\/outsider\/termite definition of art.”-David Shields\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“An engaging and distinctive read, \u003ci\u003eWoman Pissing\u003c\/i\u003e challenges, provokes, and inspires. . . . \u003ci\u003eWoman Pissing\u003c\/i\u003e refuses to give way to conventional narrative, charts its own path, and evidences the instinctual effort and devotion of a writer keenly aware of just how thin the membrane between art and life can truly be.”-Jericho Parms, author of \u003ci\u003eLost Wax\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“A book about the effort to write it, \u003ci\u003eWoman Pissing\u003c\/i\u003e is a living thing. Cooperman makes art of the effort to make art and manages, in that process, to make art-of art itself. The product is not final but a record of the process-pure pleasure for the reader.”-Kary Wayson, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Slip\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhen we think of prototypical artists, we think of, say, Picasso, who made work quickly, easily, effervescently. On the contrary, in \u003ci\u003eWoman Pissing\u003c\/i\u003e, a literary collage that takes its title from a raunchy Picasso painting, Elizabeth Cooperman celebrates artists-particularly twentieth-century women artists-who have struggled with debilitating self-doubt and uncertainty. At the same time, Cooperman grapples with her own questions of creativity, womanhood, and motherhood, considering her decade-long struggle to finish writing her own book and realizing that she has failed to perform one of the most fundamental creative acts-bearing a child.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWoman Pissing\u003c\/i\u003e is composed of roughly one hundred short prose “paintings” that converge around questions of creativity and fecundity. As the book unfolds it builds a larger metaphor about creativity, and the concerns of artistry and motherhood begin to entwine. The author comes to terms with self-doubt, inefficiency, frustration, and a nonlinear, circuitous process and proposes that these methods might be antidotes to the aggressive bravura and Picassian overconfidence of ego-driven art.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52693396259096,"sku":"9781496231444","price":13.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/woman-pissing-paperback-softback-9781496231444","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}