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A Sybil Society

Poems

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Pub Date Jan 25 2022 | Archive Date Feb 15 2022


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Description

With fearless and playful language, Katherine Factor’s debut collection reveals agony, humor, and the necessary voices of the female oracle through time. The oracle’s message is apparent—she is not dead. Her words are cryptic but contemporary, offering caution along with guidance to a society interested only in using prophecy for profit. 

In a time when only a select few are prosperous, A Sybil Society paints a portrait of the present moment and unveils a restless truth. The collection is fearless in the face of convention and gives readers a sense of devastating sorrow in a world gone mad.

With fearless and playful language, Katherine Factor’s debut collection reveals agony, humor, and the necessary voices of the female oracle through time. The oracle’s message is apparent—she is not...


A Note From the Publisher

Will appeal to readers interested in:
• Women’s poetry, women’s literature, women’s studies
• Feminism, mythology, Ancient Greece, Ancient Civilizations, classics, and archeology
• Experimental poetics, music, goddess, avant-garde, erotic literature, humor, and storytelling

Will appeal to readers interested in:
• Women’s poetry, women’s literature, women’s studies
• Feminism, mythology, Ancient Greece, Ancient Civilizations, classics, and archeology
• Experimental...


Advance Praise

“In A Sybil Society, Katherine Factor has made a new prosody, using urban slang, internet shorthand, and all the variations of American English in the twenty-first century, a system of new sound that refuses easy epiphany, offering instead a twisting language, mad speaker, and always original address to try to reach us, here, on what’s left of our earth.”

Ronaldo V. Wilson, Test Site Poetry Advisory Board member, author of several poetry collections, and winner of the Pushcart Prize


“In A Sybil Society, Katherine Factor has made a new prosody, using urban slang, internet shorthand, and all the variations of American English in the twenty-first century, a system of new sound that...


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ISBN 9781647790400
PRICE $17.00 (USD)

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