Abigail Child
Poetry. "Abigail Child's MOB is sexy and scary. Like her films, these poems use thrilling formal strategies, kinetically tracing, tracking, and dancing the mind of the body to challenge the social dystopia with eros. The eros of these poems is gorgeously articulated and deeply feminist in its manner of exploring the boundaries and sometimes lack of boundaries between feminine sexual joy and the violence and power blockages of social decay" -Carla Harryman.
Abigail Child is a media artist and writer whose original montage pushes the envelope of sound-image-text. The author of five other books of poetry, among them A Motive for Mayhem (Potes & Poets Press, 1989) and SCATTER MATRIX (Roof Books, 1996) as well as a book of criticism THIS IS CALLED MOVING: A Critical Poetics of Film (University Alabama Press, 2005), her writing has appeared in many print and online journals and anthologies. Her films, compulsive visual and aural legerdemain, have been widely awarded and shown internationally. A Professor of Media at the Museum School, Boston, at Tufts University, she lives in Boston and New York.