FORCE: A Choreopoem coming soon for purchase!
Synopsis
In FORCE: A Choreopoem, meet Victim, Survivor, and Whore—three Black women reeling from recent and repeated rapes, fighting through turbulent recovery journeys. Is Victim really a victim if she’s still alive? Is Survivor her only identity after multiple violations? Is Whore just a reckless survivor? FORCE interrogates if this prevailing rape culture norm is true—it’s going to happen again—and how to keep going if it’s false.
Praise for FORCE: A Choreopoem
Monica Prince is both ancestral and one of a kind, unique and all-encompassing. Most poets worry about “voice” as an abstraction—but in Prince’s work, voice is a perpetual swirl and rumble, a multifaced and gorgeous chamber of communal echoes. In strength, there is pain. In pain, there is wonder. In the dynamic work of Monica Prince, there is beauty to behold and stealth to ponder.
—Allison Joseph, author of Spare Me and Confessions of a Barefaced Woman
With FORCE, Monica Prince amplifies a chorus of the nameless, powerless, and voiceless. This soundtrack of blunt and blustering testimonies from Black women—victims of assault—serves as a visceral reminder of the reverberations of trauma.
—Michele Evans, author of purl
Monica Prince, associate professor of activist and performance writing, serves as Director of Africana Studies at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania. She is the author of four collections, most recently Roadmap: A Choreopoem and How to Exterminate the Black Woman: A Choreopoem. Her poems and essays appear in national and international literary journals, and as one of the foremost choreopoem scholars, Prince writes, teaches, and performs choreopoems across the nation. She shares her life with her husband, life partners, and three disrespectful cats.