Arielle Greenberg
American poet
Arielle Greenberg (born 1972) is a feminist poet and the poetry editor of Black Clock. She named and described the concept of the Gurlesque in the anthology Gurlesque: The New Grrly, Grotesque, Burlesque Poetics, which she co-edited with Lara Glenum.
Biography
Greenberg was an assistant professor in the English Department at Columbia College Chicago. She is now living with her family in Belfast, Maine. They are working on an oral history-style book on the back-to-the-land movement in that area.
Concept of the Gurlesque
The words of the Gurlesque "luxuriate: they roll around in the sensual while avoiding the sharpness of overt messages, preferring the curve of sly mockery to theory or revelation."
The term "Gurlesque" comes from a combination of "1. The Carnivalesque. 2. The Burlesque. (and the Neo-Burlesque).
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