Description

Talonbooks, paperback

Publication Date:May 31, 2022

Publisher Marketing:Unfuckable Lardass, a book of poetry by British Columbian author and editor Catriona Strang, takes its title from an outrageous insult allegedly lobbed at German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Fuelled by the energy of grief and rage, but counterpoised by moments of love and hope, this book refracts the patriarchy’s gaze.

Unfuckable Lardass begins as an attempt to refract and undercut an outrageous insult allegedly lobbed at German Chancellor Angela Merkel. As is well attested, women, no matter how accomplished, continue to be framed, judged, and viewed in reductive and sexualized terms that ignore and indeed attempt to deny their existence as subjects of their own complex histories. This book is one attempt among many to revert the patriarchys gaze. As such, it is fuelled by the energy of grief and rage, counterpoised by moments of love and hope. Strangs Unfuckable Lardass not only rejects the objectifying gaze but, more importantly, turns towards the great and expanding richness of alternate possibilities.