{"title":"Books by Petra Kuppers","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780814351116","title":"Diver Beneath the Street","description":"True crime meets ecopoetry at the level of the soil, bringing together life and death.   A decaying psychogeography unfurls the landscapes of the 1967–69 Michigan Murders, the 2019 Detroit serial killer, and the COVID-19 lockdown in this visceral poetry collection. Author, performance artist, and disability culture activist Petra Kuppers dissects traces of violence in the richness of the soil while honoring lost community members. Dynamic and somatic poems traverse the realms of urban space, wild rivers, and the hinterlands of suburbia, glimpsing the decay of bodies, houses, carpets, hair, and bones by way of ecopoetry. Poems like \"Reintegration\" and \"Earth Séance\" delve into cycles of decomposition and decreasing biodiversity across the micro- and macroworlds. Others such as \"Dancing Princesses\" tie timeless fairy-tale tropes of violence toward women to modern murders and lived experience. Moments in lockdown are embodied through somatic exploration of nature and self in works like \"Dear White Pine in My Garden.\" This evocative entanglement of life and death, joy and horror, natural and artificial processes and particles offers an intriguing lyrical and poetic quality as well as unique perspectives through the lenses of feminist, queer, and disability studies.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295015481717,"sku":"9780814351116","price":17.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780814351116_e3d03de5-8fa1-4d19-9b8a-22893467d3e8.jpg?v=1786015819"},{"product_id":"9781137605719","title":"Theatre and Disability","description":"This succinct and engaging text examines the complex relationship between theatre and disability, bringing together a wide variety of performance examples in order to explore theatrical disability through the conceptual frameworks of disability as spectacle, narrative, and experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAccessible and affordable, this is an ideal resource for theatre students and lovers everywhere.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56296598110581,"sku":"9781137605719","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781137605719_1d5abe87-b87b-4472-adc9-e197b947f36d.jpg?v=1786018090"},{"product_id":"9781517911898","title":"Eco Soma","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eModeling a disability culture perspective on performance practice toward socially just futures\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eEco Soma\u003c\/i\u003e, Petra Kuppers asks readers to be alert to their own embodied responses to art practice and to pay attention to themselves as active participants in a shared sociocultural world. Reading contemporary performance encounters and artful engagements, this book models a disability culture sensitivity to living in a shared world, oriented toward more socially just futures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEco soma methods mix and merge realities on the edges of lived experience and site-specific performance. Kuppers invites us to become moths, sprout gills, listen to our heart’s drum, and take starships into crip time. And fantasy is central to these engagements: feeling\/sensing monsters, catastrophes, golden lines, heartbeats, injured sharks, dotted salamanders, kissing mammoths, and more. Kuppers illuminates ecopoetic disability culture perspectives, contending that disabled people and their co-conspirators make art to live in a changing world, in contact with feminist, queer, trans, racialized, and Indigenous art projects. By offering new ways to think, frame, and feel “environments,” Kuppers focuses on art-based methods of envisioning change and argues that disability can offer imaginative ways toward living well and with agency in change, unrest, and challenge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraditional somatics teach us how to fine-tune our introspective senses and to open up the world of our own bodies, while eco soma methods extend that attention toward the creative possibilities of the reach between self, others, and the land. \u003ci\u003eEco Soma\u003c\/i\u003e proposes an art\/life method of sensory tuning to the inside and the outside simultaneously, a method that allows for a wider opening toward ethical cohabitation with human and more-than-human others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56302847983989,"sku":"9781517911898","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781517911898_2963190a-18dd-453d-8ca9-0c794534efff.jpg?v=1786022080"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-petra-kuppers.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}