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My Women, My Monsters, Janet Kozachek's lavishly illustrated poetry chapbook conjures monsters of the feminine kind for a post modern world. There are monsters who would be goddesses of power and grandeur if not for their mistaken identities. There are monsters who are quiet and others who are wild. Some are half insect, half human. Others sport chicken legs and lay eggs. Still others are enigmatic figures of the earth and skies. Many are archetypes of personalities, rendered as exotic yet familiar. Through poetry and art, Kozachek gives form and voice to fears, anger and awe that most everyone may recognize, regardless of gender. The author mines her rich history of studies and travels throughout Europe, the United States and Asia to bring home a treasury of both handsome and horrifying women - all in classic black and white linear designs with rich detailed patterns with a tapestry of words to match. These poems words and illustrations were created with an eye for detail, a mind for feminine complexities, and a heart for adventure. My Women, My Monsters, published by Finishing Line Press, previously won an Honorable Mention from Concrete Wolf for its witty verse completed and complimented by elaborately detailed black and white drawings. Exhibitions of the poetry and illustrations have been presented at the I.P. Stanback Museum of South Carolina State University with A Gaze Upon Woman: The Drawings of Janet Kozachek, and at Stormwater Studios in Columbia, South Carolina.

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Read this book for the fun of it, and take a good long look at it too. My Women, My Monsters is a joy to behold. Hester Prynne and J. K. Rowling might have created some such monstrous merriment. Miraculously, Janet Kozachek created it all. Erudition, wit, and artistry flow freely on these pages. You may think this book is just a lark. Think again. It is a glorious exorcism. --Larry Rhu, Todd Chair in the Italian Renaissance, Emeritus, University of South Carolina In this book, Janet Kozachek, through her evocative illustrations and often biting poems, removes the lid of the cauldron containing several familiar feminine monsters--monsters that women know from their everyday encounters with other women and also from uncomfortable glances within. Thank you, Janet! --Janet A. Walker, Professor of Comparative Literature, Rutgers University The women within us and the women of literary and cultural history, with their longings and frustrations, their magnificent madness, spring forth in Janet's drawings to meet us honestly as our shadow selves. Our fascination is matched only by our reckoning. --Professor Tamara Miles, Poet, Instructor of English and Humanities, Orangeburg Technical College

"""Read this book for the fun of it, and take a good long look at it too. My Women, My Monsters is a joy to behold. Hester Prynne and J. K. Rowling might have created some such monstrous merriment. Miraculously, Janet Kozachek created it all. Erudition, wit, and artistry flow freely on these pages. You may think this book is just a lark. Think again. It is a glorious exorcism."" --Larry Rhu, Todd Chair in the Italian Renaissance, Emeritus, University of South Carolina ""In this book, Janet Kozachek, through her evocative illustrations and often biting poems, removes the lid of the cauldron containing several familiar feminine monsters--monsters that women know from their everyday encounters with other women and also from uncomfortable glances within. Thank you, Janet!"" --Janet A. Walker, Professor of Comparative Literature, Rutgers University ""The women within us and the women of literary and cultural history, with their longings and frustrations, their magnificent madness, spring forth in Janet's drawings to meet us honestly as our shadow selves. Our fascination is matched only by our reckoning."" --Professor Tamara Miles, Poet, Instructor of English and Humanities, Orangeburg Technical College"

Author Information

Janet Kozachek is a visual artist and writer working from her studio in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Her education was unusually eclectic, having studied in Europe, China and the United States. She holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Drawing and Painting from Parsons School of Design in New York, where she also studied poetry with J.D. McClatchy. Her Certificate of Graduate Study in Chinese Art from the Central Academy of Fine Art (CAFA) in the People's Republic of China included the study of Chinese poetry and painting. Janet Kozachek has exhibited and published widely, was a Helena Rubinstein Scholar, a recipient of a Puffin Foundation grant, a South Carolina Humanities Council Grant, and numerous sub-grant awards funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Her poetry and illustrations have been published in Undefined magazine and in the journal Ekphrasis.

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