{"product_id":"woman-pissing-9781496231444","title":"Woman Pissing","description":"When we think of prototypical artists, we think of, say, Picasso, who made work quickly, easily, effervescently. On the contrary, in \u003ci\u003eWoman Pissing\u003c\/i\u003e, a literary collage that takes its title from a raunchy Picasso painting, Elizabeth Cooperman celebrates artists--particularly twentieth-century women artists--who have struggled with debilitating self-doubt and uncertainty. At the same time, Cooperman grapples with her own questions of creativity, womanhood, and motherhood, considering her decade-long struggle to finish writing her own book and realizing that she has failed to perform one of the most fundamental creative acts--bearing a child. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWoman Pissing\u003c\/i\u003e is composed of roughly one hundred short prose \"paintings\" that converge around questions of creativity and fecundity. As the book unfolds it builds a larger metaphor about creativity, and the concerns of artistry and motherhood begin to entwine. The author comes to terms with self-doubt, inefficiency, frustration, and a nonlinear, circuitous process and proposes that these methods might be antidotes to the aggressive bravura and Picassian overconfidence of ego-driven art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Cooperman\u003c\/b\u003e is coeditor (with David Shields) of the anthology \u003ci\u003eLife Is Short--Art Is Shorter\u003c\/i\u003e and coauthor (with Thomas Walton) of \u003ci\u003eThe Last Mosaic\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eWriter's Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSeattle Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e1913: A Journal of Forms\u003c\/i\u003e, and other journals. She is the art director of \u003ci\u003ePageBoy Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50533894095122,"sku":"9781496231444","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_17f8c905-f5bb-4444-af2b-5c141a7042b7.jpg?v=1731414583","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/woman-pissing-9781496231444","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}