Shari Caplan is the siren behind Advice from a Siren (Dancing Girl Press). Her poems have swum into Gulf Coast, Nonbinary Review, Masque & Spectacle, Tinderbox, Deluge, and more. Caplan’s work has earned her a scholarship to the Home School in Hudson NY, a fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center, and nominations for A Pushcart […]
Shari Caplan
Shari Caplan: Laura Mulvey on the (fe)Male Gaze
A bear turned to a lounging place. Instead of unspooling story the fe/male leans in her lack /light against the paradox of phallocentrism. Bear/er of the bloody wound. Subject by being object/ed. To exit/exist, she must thwart the male ailment, fuck Freud. Virgin/Vixenhood fantasies. Ropes hissing the bedframe. All the men I know want to […]
Shari Caplan: Lee Miller on The Female (Gaze)
Don’t! melt until I’ve lit you. Covered to the neck. A sheet to morph you, size the shine on your – don’t! face. Now, topless in the metal chair, like an uncorked bottle. Cross at the elbows, look down at the ants. Don’t – […]
Shari Caplan: Frida Kahlo (on Frida Kahlo) on the Female Gaze
Comparison fragments the green-gold of my body. Nothing compares. As a woman, I see a deer in an arrow forest with my face on and hear palpitating hooves across dry needles. As a deer, I see a woman poking her paint into my wound. What do you see, Diego? You were called Auxochrome the one […]