{"id":1148,"date":"2017-06-30T10:42:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T10:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/press\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2024-11-26T15:32:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T15:32:24","slug":"forthcoming-let-us-imagine-her-name-by-sue-walker","status":"publish","type":"books","link":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/books\/forthcoming-let-us-imagine-her-name-by-sue-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Us Imagine Her Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: left\">\u201cThese lyric investigations of female lives and voices coalesce as a journey into the heart of both language and reality itself. Greta Garbo comes out of her hiding place in history to share a recipe for human insight; Hypatia contemplates the cosmology of fate; and Susan Sontag\u2019s ghost confesses the truth about \u2018truth.\u2019 Walker\u2019s capacity for invention is dazzling and inexhaustible&#8230; This book is daring, erudite, and heartbreakingly beautiful. Let us now imagine Walker\u2019s name among our essential Southern voices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: left\">\u2014Carey Scott Wilkerson, author of <i>T<\/i><span class=\"s2\"><i>hreading <\/i><\/span><i>S<\/i><span class=\"s3\">t<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>one <\/i><\/span>and\u00a0<em><span class=\"s4\">S<\/span>even <span class=\"s3\">D<\/span>ream<span class=\"s3\">s\u00a0<\/span>of <span class=\"s3\">F<\/span>alling <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: left\">\u201c<i>Let Us Imagine Her Name <\/i>is as remarkable as any book I\u2019ve read in a long time: a memoir of a life that began with a huge strike against it, by a woman trying on identities to find one that best fits. Sue Walker\u2019s writing sparkles. The whole book is an amazing tour de force certain to fascinate and regale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: left\">\u2014X. J. Kennedy, author of <em><span class=\"s3\">I<\/span><span class=\"s2\">n a <\/span>P<span class=\"s2\">rominen<\/span><span class=\"s5\">t\u00a0<\/span>B<span class=\"s2\">ar in <\/span>S<span class=\"s2\">ecaucu<\/span><span class=\"s5\">s<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: left\">\u201cAdrienne Rich once said, \u2018Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you.\u2019 Herein lies the brilliance of Sue Brannan Walker\u2019s <i>Let Us Imagine Her Name<\/i>. Walker shows us, through her wondrous experimentation with form, the ways that language shapes identity, consciousness, and the very foundations of the social order. Even more provocatively, she reveals the implicit politics buried in even our smallest linguistic choices. Part deconstruction, part homage, Walker\u2019s new book forges its own architecture, an exquisite cathedral made to house portraits of revolutionary female figures. For each woman, each persona, each voice, Walker cultivates a life in language that is unequivocally her own. In short: this is a magnificent collection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: left\">\u2014Kristina Marie Darling, author of <span class=\"s2\"><i>Dark Horse<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: left\">&#8220;I am jumping from woman to woman and strangely, wonderfully, I am finding myself on every page! I think every woman reader will. It feels important, this book. It feels fresh, new, honest, deeply felt and bravely, uniquely, brilliantly said. It tells us what we know but do not know we know\u2014the ways we are complex, the ways we suffer and overcome suffering. . . . It is all here, but on its knees before the poet. . . . We allowed to hurt, but wit makes the pain of seeing and understanding bearable and ultimately amounts to revelation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: left\">\u2014Pat Schneider, author of\u00a0<em>Another River: New and Selected Poems<\/em> and <em>How the Light Gets In<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":237,"template":"","subject":[34],"browse_by_series":[],"browse_by_imprints":[66],"conference":[],"class_list":["post-1148","books","type-books","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","subject-general-interest","browse_by_imprints-clemson-university-press-independent"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/books"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4510,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/1148\/revisions\/4510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"browse_by_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/browse_by_series?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"browse_by_imprints","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/browse_by_imprints?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"conference","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/conference?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}