by Kim Rosenfield (Author)
Phantom Captain explores the poetry of psychoanalysis, feminism and gender, questions of the 21st century self, and the accelerating pressures of standardizing capitalism upon the human mind.
Kim Rosenfield places the funhouse mirror of the psychoanalytic endeavor in full-frontal view, without sugar-coating and without filters, inviting readers to participate in deep-diving investigations. Psychic provocations are laid bare while being surrounded by the honest warmth in Rosenfield's voice. Rosenfield's poems are simultaneously mature, fresh, and energetic, breaking through the newly creeping American homogenizations, exposing the everydayness of all that oppresses the mind and voice: "the shit you smell / just might be your own." In six irregular and ambitious sections, Rosenfield offers a path of transcendent survival: one that protects human intuition and improvisation.Author Biography
Kim Rosenfield is a poet and psychotherapist living and working in Brooklyn, New York.
Originally from Southern California, her first chapbook was published by Ouija Madness Press, Los Angeles in 1982. She is the author of Two Poems (LEAVE books,1995) Good Morning--Midnight-- (Roof Books 200, winner of Small Press Traffic's Book of the Year Award), Tr瀘a (Krupskaya 2004), re: evolution (Les Figues Press 2009) Lividity (Les Figues Press, 2012) and USO: I'll Be Seeing You (Ugly Duckling Presse 2013). Her work has been included in the anthologies Bowery Women: Poems (YBK Press 2006), Gurlesque: The New Grrly, Burlesque Poetics (Saturnalia Books 2010), Against Expression (Northwestern University Press 2011), I'll Drown My Book (Les Figues Press 2012), and The Unexpected Guest: Art, writing and thinking on hospitality (Liverpool Biennial, ART/BOOKS 2018). From 1993-1996, Rosenfield co-edited Object magazine with Robert Fitterman (eclipsearchive.org) and is a founding member of the artist collective, Collective Task (collectivetask.magnetberg.de/).