Post Classic
Following her 2011 collection INSTANT CLASSIC, erica kaufman returns with the fierce and fiery POST CLASSIC. It is juicy; it is adamant; it is “ sapphic emo sewage.” Culling from homoerotics of the epic tradition, lesbian pulp, parodies of academe-speak, and texts of resistance, POST CLASSIC is as delicious as it is audacious. POST CLASSIC tunes into the way supposedly radical thought and action becomes institutionalized and pacified. “ sing to me o institutional hashtag.” kaufman invokes and then proceeds to offer us manifold rebellious, monstrous forms to rage against the neoliberal university cultural industry and refuses “ to replicate the experience / of being summarized repackaged / for a world where spelling counts.”
erica kaufman is the author of POST CLASSIC, INSTANT CLASSIC, censory impulse, and coeditor of NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life and Work of kari edwards and a collection of archival pedagogical documents, Adrienne Rich: Teaching at CUNY, 1968– 1974. Recent poems can be found in A Perfect Vacuum and P=Queue.
