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Squash's Book Roundup 2023

Last year I read 67 books. This year my goal was 70, but I very quickly passed that, so in total I read 92 books this year. Honestly I have no idea how I did it, it just sort of happened. My other goal was to read an equal amount of fiction and nonfiction this year (usually fiction dominates), and I was successful in that as well. Another goal which I didn’t have at the outset but which kind of organically happened after the first month or so of reading was that I wanted to read mostly strange/experimental/transgressive/unusual fiction. My nonfiction choices were just whatever looked interesting or cool, but I also organically developed a goal of reading a wider spread of subjects/genres of nonfiction. A lot of the books I read this year were books I’d never heard of, but stumbled across at work. Also, finally more than 1/3 of what I read was published in the 21st century.

I’ll do superlatives and commentary at the end, so here is what I read in 2023:

-The Commitments by Roddy Doyle -A Simple Story: The Last Malambo by Leila Guerriero -The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell -Uzumaki by Junji Ito -Chroma by Derek Jarman -The Emerald Mile: The epic story of the fastest ride in history through the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko -Venus by Suzan-Lori Parks -The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington -Sacred Sex: Erotic writings from the religions of the world by Robert Bates -The Virginia State Colony For Epileptics And The Feebleminded by Molly McCully Brown -A Spy In The House Of Love by Anais Nin -The Sober Truth: Debunking the bad science behind 12-step programs and the rehab industry by Lance Dodes -The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima -The Aliens by Annie Baker -The Criminal Child And Other Essays by Jean Genet -Aimee and Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943 by Erica Fischer -The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov -The Mustache by Emmanuel Carriere -Maldoror by Comte de Lautreamont -Narrow Rooms by James Purdy -At Your Own Risk by Derek Jarman -Escape From Freedom by Erich Fromm -Countdown: A Subterranean Magazine #3 by Underground Press Syndicate Collective -Fabulosa! The story of Britain's secret gay language by Paul Baker -The Golden Spruce: A true story of myth, madness and greed by John Vaillant -Querelle de Roberval by Kevin Lambert -Fire The Bastards! by Jack Green -Closer by Dennis Cooper -The Woman In The Dunes by Kobo Abe -Opium: A Diary Of His Cure by Jean Cocteau -Worker-Student Action Committees France May '68 by Fredy Perlman and R. Gregoire -Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher -The Sound Of Waves by Yukio Mishima -One Day In My Life by Bobby Sands -Corydon by Andre Gide -Noopiming by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson -Man Alive: A true story of violence, forgiveness and becoming a man by Thomas Page McBee -The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art by Mark Rothko -Damage by Josephine Hart -Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai -The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector -The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion and Rock n Roll by Simon Reynolds and Joy Press -The Traffic Power Structure by planka.nu -Bird Man: The many faces of Robert Straud by Jolene Babyak -Seven Dada Manifestos by Tristan Tzara

-The Journalist by Harry Mathews -Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber -Moscow To The End Of The Line by Venedikt Erofeev -Morvern Callar by Alan Warner -The Poetics Of Space by Gaston Bachelard -A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White -The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee -Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson -Notes From The Sick Room by Steve Finbow -Artaud The Momo by Antonin Artaud -Doctor Rat by William Kotzwinkle -Recollections Of A Part-Time Lady by Minette -trans girl suicide museum by Hannah Baer -The 99% Invisible City by Roman Mars -Sweet Days Of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy -Breath: The new science of a lost art by James Nestor -What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund -The Cardiff Tapes (1972) by Garth Evans -The Ark Sakura by Kobo Abe -Mad Like Artaud by Sylvere Lotringer -The Story Of The Eye by Georges Bataille -Little Blue Encyclopedia (For Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante -Blood And Guts In High School by Kathy Acker -Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton -Splendid's by Jean Genet -VAS: An Opera In Flatland by Steve Tomasula -Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want To Come: One introvert's year of saying yes by Jessica Pan -Whores For Gloria by William T. Vollmann -The Notebooks by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Larry Walsh (editor) -L'Astragale by Albertine Sarrazin -The Decay Of Lying and other essays by Oscar Wilde -The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot -Open Throat by Henry Hoke -Prisoner Of Love by Jean Genet -The Fifth Wound by Aurora Mattia -The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx -My Friend Anna: The true story of a fake heiress by Rachel DeLoache Williams -Mammother by Zachary Schomburg -Building The Commune: Radical democracy in Venezuela by George Cicarello-Maher -Blackouts by Justin Torres -Cheapjack by Philip Allingham -Near To The Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector -The Trayvon Generation by Elizabeth Alexander -Skye Papers by Jamika Ajalon -Exercises In Style by Raymon Queneau -Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein -The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson

~Some number factoids~ I read 46 fiction and 46 nonfiction. One book, The Fifth Wound by Aurora Mattia, is fictionalized/embellished autobiography, so it could go half in each category if we wanted to do that, but I put it in the fiction category. I tried to read as large a variety of nonfiction subjects/genres as I could. A lot of the nonfiction I read has overlapping subjects, so I’ve chosen to sort by the one that seems the most overarching. By subject, I read: 5 art history/criticism, 5 biographies, 1 black studies, 1 drug memoir, 2 essay collections, 2 history, 2 Latin American studies, 4 literary criticism, 1 music history, 2 mythology/religion, 1 nature, 4 political science, 2 psychology, 5 queer studies, 2 science, 1 sociology, 1 travel, 2 true crime, 3 urban planning. I also read more queer books in general (fiction and nonfiction) than I have in years, coming in at 20 books.

The rest of my commentary and thoughts under a cut because it's fairly long

Here’s a photo of all the books I read that I own a physical copy of (minus Closer by Dennis Cooper which a friend is borrowing):

~Superlatives and Thoughts~

I read so many books this year I’m going to do a runner-up for each superlative category.

Favorite book: This is such a hard question this year. I think I gave out more five-star ratings on Goodreads this year than I ever have before. The books that got 5 stars from me this year were A Simple Story: The Last Malambo by Leila Guerriero, Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher, The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko, The Mustache by Emmanuel Carriere, The Passion According to GH by Clarice Lispector, trans girl suicide museum by Hannah Baer, The Fifth Wound by Aurora Mattia, Mammother by Zachary Schomburg, and Blackouts by Justin Torres. But I think my favorite book of the year was The Fifth Wound by Aurora Mattia. It is an embellished, fictionalized biography of the author’s life, chronicling a breakup that occurred just before she began her transition, and then a variety of emotional events afterward and her renewal of a connection with that person after a number of years had passed. The writing style is beautiful, extremely decadent, and sits in a sort of venn diagram of poetry, theory, fantasy and biography. My coworker who recommended this book to me said no one she’d recommended it to had finished it because they found it so weird. I read the first 14 pages very slowly because I didn’t exactly know what the book was doing, but I quickly fell completely in love with the imagery and the formatting style and the literary and religious references that have been worked into the book both as touchstones for biography and as vehicles for fantasy. There is a video I remember first seeing years ago, in which a beautiful pinkish corn snake slithers along a hoop that is part of a hanging mobile made of driftwood and macrame and white beads and prism crystals. This was the image that was in the back of my head the entire time I was reading The Fifth Wound, because it matched the decadence and the strangeness and the crystalline beauty of the language and visuals in the book. It is a pretty intense book, absolutely packed with images and emotion and ideas and preserved vignettes where reality and fantasy and theory overlap. It’s one of those books that’s hard to describe because it’s so full. It’s dense not in that the words or ideas are hard to understand, but in that it’s overflowing with imagery and feelings, and it feels like an overflowing treasure chest. Runner-up:The Mustache by Emmanuel Carriere. However, this book wins for a different superlative, so I’ve written more about it there.

Least favorite book: Querelle de Roberval by Kevin Lambert. I wrote a whole long review of it. In summary, Lambert’s book takes its name from Querelle de Brest, a novel by Jean Genet, and is apparently meant to be an homage to Genet’s work. Unfortunately, Lambert seems to misunderstand or ignore all the important aspects of Genet’s work that make it so compelling, and instead twists certain motifs Genet uses as symbols of love or transcendence into meaningless or negative connotations. He also attempts to use Genet’s mechanic of inserting the author into the narrative and allowing the author to have questionable or conflicting morals in order to emphasize certain aspects of the characters or narrative, except he does so too late in the game and ends up just completely undermining everything he writes. This book made me feel insulted on behalf of Jean Genet and all the philosophical thought he put into his work. Runner-up: What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund. This graphic designer claims that when people read they don’t actually imagine what characters look like and can’t conjure up an image in their head when asked something like “What does Jane Eyre look like to you?” Unfortunately, there’s nothing scientific in the book to back this up and it’s mostly “I” statements, so it’s more like “What Peter Mendelsund Sees (Or Doesn’t See) When He Reads”. It’s written in what seems to be an attempt to mimic Marshall McLuhan’s style in The Medium Is The Massage, but it isn’t done very well. I spent most of my time reading this book thinking This does not reflect my experience when I read novels so I think really it’s just a bad book written by someone who maybe has some level of aphantasia or maybe is a visual but not literary person, and who assumes everyone else experiences the same thing when they read. (Another runner-up would be The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, but I think that’s a given because it’s an awful piece of revisionist, racist trash, so I won’t write a whole thing about it. I can if someone wants me to.)

Most surprising/unexpected book: The Mustache by Emmanuel Carriere. This book absolutely wins for most surprising. However, I don’t want to say too much about it because the biggest surprise is the end. It was the most shocking, most unexpected and bizarre endings to a novel I’ve read in a long time, and I absolutely loved it. It was weird from the start and it just kept getting weirder. The unnamed narrator decides, as a joke, to shave off the moustache he’s had for his entire adult life. When his wife doesn’t react, he assumes that she’s escalating their already-established tradition of little pranks between each other. But then their mutual friends say nothing about the change, and neither do his coworkers, and he starts spiral into confusion and paranoia. I don’t want to spoil anything else because this book absolutely blew me away with its weirdness and its existential dread and anyone who likes weird books should read it. Runner-up: Morvern Callar by Alan Warner. I don’t even know what compelled me to open this book at work, but I’m glad I did. The book opens on Christmas, where the main character, Morvern, discovers her boyfriend dead by suicide on the kitchen floor of their flat. Instead of calling the police or her family, she takes a shower, gets her things and leaves for work. Her narrative style is strange, simultaneously very detached and extremely emotional, but emotional in an abstract way, in which descriptions and words come out stilted or strangely constructed. The book becomes a narrative of Morvern’s attempts to find solitude and happiness, from the wilderness of Scotland to late night raves and beaches in an unnamed Mediterranean city. The entire book is scaffolded by a built-in playlist. Morvern’s narrative is punctuated throughout by accounts of exactly what she’s listening to on her Walkman. The narrative style and the playlist and the bizarre behavior of the main character were not at all what I was expecting when I opened the book, but I read the entire book in about 3 hours and I was captivated the whole time. If you like the Trainspotting series of books, I would recommend this one for sure.

Most fun book: The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko. This book was amazing. It was like reading an adventure novel and a thriller and a book on conservationism all wrapped into one and it was clearly very passionately written and it was a blast. I picked it up because I was pricing it at work and I read the captions on one of the photo inserts, which intrigued me, so I read the first page, and then I couldn’t stop. The two main narratives in the book are the history of the Grand Canyon (more specifically the damming of the Colorado River) and the story of a Grand Canyon river guide called Kenton Grua, who decided with two of his river guide friends to break the world record for fastest boat ride down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. The book is thoroughly researched, and reaches back to the first written record of the canyon, then charts the history of the canyon and the river up to 1983 when Grua made his attempt to race down the river, and then the aftermath and what has happened to everyone in the years since. All of the historical figures as well as the “current” figures of 1983 come to life, and are passionately portrayed. It’s a genuine adventure of a book, and I highly recommend it. Runner-up: Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton. It asks “What if Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys was actually a trans woman?” Actually, that’s not quite it. It asks “What if a trans woman living in poverty in southwest America believed to an almost spiritual level that Brian Wilson was a trans woman?” The main character and narrator, Gala, is convinced that the lead singer of her favorite band, the Get Happies, (a fictional but fairly obvious parallel to the Beach Boys) is a trans woman. Half the book is her writing out her version of the singer’s life history, and the other half is her life working at a hostel in Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico, where she meets a woman who forces her out of her comfort zone and encourages her to face certain aspects of her self and identity and her connection with others. It’s a weird novel, and definitely not for everyone, but it’s fun. I was reading it on the train home and I was so into it that I missed my stop and had to get off at the next station and wait 20 minutes for the train going back the other way.

Book that taught me the most: Breath: The new science of a lost art by James Nestor. In it, Nestor explores why humans as a general population are so bad at breathing properly. He interviews scientists and alternative/traditional health experts, archaeologists, historians and religious scholars. He uses himself as a guinea pig to experiment with different breathing techniques from ancient meditation styles to essentially overdosing on oxygen in a lab-controlled environment to literally plugging his nose shut to only mouth-breathe for two weeks (and then vice-versa with nose breathing). It was interesting to see a bunch of different theories a laid out together regarding what kind of breathing is best, as well as various theories on the history of human physiology and why breathing is hard. Some of it is scientific, some pseudoscience, some just ancient meditation techniques, but he takes a crack at them all. What was kind of cool is that he tries every theory and experiment with equal enthusiasm and doesn’t really seem to favor any one method. Since he’s experimenting on himself, a lot of it is about the effects the experiments had on him specifically and his experiences with different types of breathing. His major emphasis/takeaway is that focusing on breathing and learning to change the ways in which we breathe will be beneficial in the long run (and that we should all breath through our noses more). While I don’t think changing how you breathe is a cure-all (some of the pseudoscience he looks at in this book claims so) I certainly agree that learning how to breath better is a positive goal. Runner-up: The Sober Truth by Lance Dodes. I say runner-up because a lot of the content of the book is things that I had sort of vague assumptions about based on my knowledge of addiction and AA and mental illness in general. But Dodes put into words and illustrated with numbers and anecdotes and case studies what I just kind of had a vague feeling about. It was cool to see AA so thoroughly debunked by an actual psychiatrist and in such a methodical way, since my skepticism about it has mostly been based on the experiences of people I know in real life, anecdotes I’ve read online, or musicians/writers/etc I’m a fan of that went through it and were negatively affected.

Most interesting/thought provoking book: Mammother by Zachary Schomburg. The biggest reason this book was so interesting is because the little world in which it exists is so strange and yet so utterly complete. In a town called Pie Time (where birds don’t exist and the main form of work is at the beer-and-cigarettes factory) a young boy called Mano who has been living his childhood as a girl decides that he is now a man and that it’s time for him to grow up. As this happens, the town is struck by an affliction called God’s Finger. People die seemingly out of nowhere, from a hole in their chest, and some object comes out of the hole. Mano collects the things that come out of these holes, and literally holds them in order to love them, but the more he collects, the bigger he becomes as he adds objects to his body. A capitalist business called XO shows up, trying to convince the people of Pie Time that they can protect themselves from God’s Finger with a number of enterprises, and starts to slowly take over the town. But Mano doesn’t believe death is something that should be run from. This book is so pretty, and the symbolism/metaphors, even when obvious, feel as though they belong organically in the world. A quote on the back of the book says it is “as nearly complete a world as can be”, and I think that’s a very accurate description. The story is interesting, the characters are compelling, and the magical realist world in which the story exists is fascinating. Runner up: trans girl suicide museum by Hannah Baer. This is a series of essays taken (for the most part) from Baer’s blog posts. They span a chunk of time in which she writes her thoughts and musings on her experience transition and transgender existence in general. It is mostly a series of pieces reflecting on “early” stages of transition. But I thought it was really cool to see an intellectual and somewhat philosophical take on transition, written by someone who has only been publicly out for a few years, and therefore is looking at certain experiences with a fresh gaze. As the title suggests, a lot of the book is a bit sad, but it’s not all doom and gloom. A lot of the emphasis is on the important of community when it comes to the experience of starting to transition and the first few years, and the importance of community on the trans experience in general. I really liked reading Hannah Baer’s thoughts as a queer intellectual who was writing about this stuff as she experienced it (or not too long after) rather than writing about the experience of early transition years and years down the line. It meant the writing was very sharp and the emotion was clear and not clouded by nostalgia.

Other thoughts/commentary on books I don’t have superlatives for:

I’m glad my first (full) book read in 2023 was A Simple Story: The Last Malambo by Leila Guierrero. It’s a small, compact gem of a book that follows the winner of an Argentinian dance competition. The Malambo is a traditional dance, and the competition is very fierce, and once someone wins, they can never compete again. The author follows the runner-up of the previous year, who has come to compete again. It paints a vivid picture of the history of the dance, the culture of the competition, and the character of the dancer the author has chosen to follow. It’s very narrowly focused, which makes it really compelling.

The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington could have easily won for most fun or most interesting book. Carrington was a surrealist writer and painter (and was in a relationship with Max Ernst until she was institutionalized and he was deported by the Nazis). In The Hearing Trumpet, an elderly woman called Marian is forced by her family to go live in an old ladies’ home. The first strange thing about the place is that all of the little cabins each woman lives in is shaped like some odd object, like an iron, or ice cream, or a rabbit. The other old women at the institution are a mixed bag, and the warden of the place is hostile. Marian starts to suspect that there are secrets, and even witchcraft involved, and she and a few of the other ladies start to try and unravel the occult mysteries hidden in the grounds of the home. The whole book is fun and strange, and the ending is an extremely entertaining display of feminist occult surrealism.

Sacred Sex: Erotica writings from the religions of the world by Robert Bates was a book I had to read for research for my debunking of Withdrawn Traces. It was really very interesting, but it was also hilarious to read because maybe 5% of any of the texts included were actually erotic. It should have been called “romantic writings from the religions of the world” because so little of the writing had anything to do with sex, even in a more metaphorical sense.

Every time I read Yukio Mishima I’m reminded how much I love his style. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea almost usurped The Temple of the Golden Pavilion as my favorite Mishima novel. I’m fascinated with the way that Mishima uses his characters to explore the circumstance of having very intense feelings or reactions towards something and simultaneously wanting to experience that, while also wanting to have complete control and not feel them at all. There’s a scene in this novel where Noboru and his friends brutally kill and dissect a cat; it’s an intense and vividly rendered scene, made all the more intense by Noboru desperately conflicted between feeling affected by the killing and wanting to force himself to feel nothing. The amazing subtle theme running through the book is the difference between Noboru’s intense emotions and his desire/struggle to control them and subdue them versus Ryuji’s more subtle emotion that grows through the book despite his natural reserve. I love endings like the one in this book, where it “cuts to black” and you don’t actually see the final act, it’s simply implied.

In 2016 or 2017, I ran lights for a showcase for the drama department at UPS (I can’t remember now what it was) that included a bunch of scenes from various plays. I remember a segment from Hir by Taylor Mac, and a scene from The Aliens by Annie Baker. In the scene that I saw, one of the characters describes how when he was a boy, he couldn’t stop saying the word ladder, and the monologue culminates in a full paragraph that is just the word “ladder.” I can’t remember who was acting in the one that I saw at UPS, but that monologue blew me away, the way that one word repeated 127 conveyed so much. This year a collection of Annie Baker’s plays came in at work so I sat down and read the whole play and it was just incredible. I’d love to see the full play live, it’s absolutely captivating.

Narrow Rooms by James Purdy was a total diamond in the rough. It takes place in Appalachia, in perhaps the 1950s although it’s somewhat hard to tell. It follows the strange gay entanglement between four adult men in their 20s, who have known each other all their lives. It traces threads of bizarre codependency, and the lines crossed between love and hate. The main character, Sidney, has just returned home after serving a sentence for manslaughter. On his return, he finds that an old lover has been rendered disabled in an accident, and that an old school rival/object of obsession has been waiting for him. This rival, nicknamed “The Renderer” because of an old family occupation, has been watching Sidney all their lives. Both of them hate the other, but know that they’re destined to meet in some way. Caught in the middle of their strange relationship are Gareth, Sidney’s now-disabled former lover, and Brian, a young man who thinks he’s in love with The Renderer. The writing style took me some time to get used to, as it is written as though by someone who has taught themselves, or has only had basic classes on fiction writing. But the plot itself is so strange and the characters are so stilted in their own internality that it actually fits really well. Like The Mustache, this book had one of the strangest, most intensely visceral and shocking endings I’ve read in a while. It was also “one that got away.” I read it at work, then put it on my staff picks shelf, and only realized after someone else bought it that I should have kept it for myself.

The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector blew my mind. I really don’t want to spoil any of it, but I highly encourage anyone who hasn’t read it to do. The build in tension is perfect and last 30 pages are just incredible. Lispector’s style is so unique and so beautiful and tosses out huge existential questions like it’s nothing, and I love her work so much.

Moscow To The End Of The Line by Venedikt Erofeev was another really unexpected book. It’s extremely Russian (obviously) and really fun until suddenly it isn’t. The main character, a drunkard, gets on a train from Moscow to Petushki, the town at the end of the line (hence the title), in order to see his lover. On the way, he befriends the other people in his train car and they all steadily get drunker and drunker, until he falls asleep and misses his stop. Very Russian, somewhat strange, and I was surprised that it was written in the late 60s and not the 30s.

Dr. Rat by William Kotzwinkle was what I expected. Weird in a goofy way, a bit silly even when it’s serious, and rather heavy-handed satire. The titular Dr Rat is a rat who has spent his whole life in a laboratory and has gone insane. The other animals who are being tested on want to escape, but he’s convinced that all the testing is for the good of science and wants to thwart their rebellion. Unfortunately, all the other animals who are victims of human cruelty/callousness/invasion/deforestation/etc around the world are also planning to rebel, connection with each other through a sort of psychic television network. It’s a very heavy-handed environmentalist/anti-animal cruelty metaphor and general societal satire, but it’s silly and fun too.

Confessions Of A Part-Time Lady by Minette is a self-published, nearly impossible to find book that came into my work. It’s self-printed and bound, and was published in the 70s. It is the autobiographical narrative of a trans woman who did drag and burlesque and theatre work all across the midwest, as well as New York and San Francisco, from the 1930s up to the late 60s. It was originally a series of interviews by the two editors, who published it in narrative form, and it includes photos from Minette’s personal collection. It’s an amazing story, and a glimpse into a really unique time period of gender performance and queer life. She even mentions Sylvia Rivera, specifically when talking about gay activism. She talks about how the original group of the Gay Liberation Front was an eclectic mix of all sorts of people of all sexualities and genders and expressions. Then when the Gay Activists Alliance “took over”, they started pushing out people who were queer in a more transgressive or unusual way and there was more encouragement on being more heteronormative. She mentions Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson, saying “I remember Sylvia Rivera who founded STAR – Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries. She was always trying to say things – the same kinds of things Marsha P Johnson says in a sweeter way – and they treated her like garbage. If that’s what ‘order’ is, haven’t we had enough?”

Whores For Gloria by William T Vollmann was exactly as amazing as I thought it would be. I love Vollmann’s style, because you can tell that even though the characters he’s writing about are characters, they’re absolutely based on people that he met or saw or spoke to in real life. The main character, Jimmy, is searching for his former lover, Gloria, who has either died or left him (it is unclear for most of the novel). He begins to use tokens bought from sex workers (hair, clothes, etc) to attempt to conjure her into reality, and when that doesn’t work, he pays them to tell him stories from their lives, and through their lives he tries to conjure Gloria. This novel’s ending had extremely similar vibes to the ending of Moscow To The End Of The Line.

Prisoner Of Love by Jean Genet was a lot to take in. It was weird reading it at this moment in time, and completely unplanned. It’s just that I have only a few more books to read before I’ve made my way through all Genet’s works that have been translated into English, and it was next on the list. Most of the book focuses on Genet’s time spent in Palestine in the 70s and his short return in the 80s. He also discusses the time he spent with the Black Panthers in the US, although it’s not the main subject of the book. Viewing Palestine from the point of view of Genet’s weird philosophical and moral worldview was really interesting, because what he chooses to spend time looking at or talking about is probably not what most would focus on, and because even his most political discussions are tinged with the uniquely Genet-style spirituality (if you can call it that? I don’t know what to call it) that is so much the exact opposite of objective. It’s definitely not a book about Palestine I would recommend reading without also having a grasp of Genet’s style of looking at the world and his various obsessions and preoccupations, because they really do inform a lot of his commentary. It was also written 15 years after his first trip to Palestine, partly from memory and partly from journal entries/notes, which gives it a sort of weirdly dreamlike quality much like his novels.

Blackouts by Justin Torres was so amazing! It blends real life and fiction together so well that I didn’t even realize that most of the people he references in the novel are real historical figures until he mentioned Ben Reitman, who I recognized as the Chicago King Of The Hobos and Emma Goldman’s lover. The book follows an unnamed narrator who has come to a hotel or apartment in the southwest in order to care for a dying elderly man called Juan Gay. Juan has a book called Sex Variants, a study of homosexuality from the 1940s which has been censored and blacked out. Back and forth, the narrator and Juan trade stories. The narrator tells his life story up until the present, including his first meeting with Juan in a mental hospital as a teenager. In turn, Juan tells the story of the Sex Variants book and its creator, Jan Gay (Ben Reitman’s real life daughter). The book explores the reliability of narrative, the power of collecting and documenting life stories, and of removing or changing things in order to create new or different narratives.

Again, Clarice Lispector rocking my world! Generally I can read a 200-ish page novel in somewhere between 2 and 4 hours depending on the content/writing style. Near To The Wild Heart took me 9 hours to read because I kept wanting to stop and reread entire paragraphs because they were so interesting or pretty or philosophical. The story focuses on Joana, whose strange way of looking at the world and going through life makes everyone sort of wary of her. This book is so layered I don’t really know how to describe it. So much of it is philosophical or existential musings through the vehicle of Joana. Unsurprisingly, it’s a beautiful book and I highly recommend it.

I’m just going to copy/paste my Goodreads review for Skye Papers by Jamika Ajalon: This book had so much potential that just…fell short. I could tell that it was written for an American audience but the way the reader/Skye is “taught” certain British terms and/or slang felt a bit patronizing. The characters were fleshed out and interesting and I liked them a lot but the plot crumbled quickly in the last half of the book Things sped up to a degree that felt strange and unnatural, the book’s pacing was inconsistent throughout. Perhaps that was deliberate considering the reveal at the climax, but if it was, it should have been utilized better. If the inconsistent pacing wasn’t deliberate, then it just made the book feel strange to read. There were moments were I felt like there should have been more fleshing out of certain character relationships. Even with the reveal at the end and the explanation of Pieces’ erratic/avoidant behavior, I wish there had been more fleshing out of the relationship or friendship between her and Skye at the beginning, when Skye first arrives in London. Characters who seemed cool/interesting got glossed over and instead there was a lot more dwelling on Skye walking around or busking or just hanging out. I could have gone without the last 30 or so pages after the big reveal, where Skye went back through everything that happened with the knowledge she (and the reader) had gained. It dragged on and on and at that point I felt like the whole story was so contrived that I just wasn’t interested anymore. A friend who read this book before I did said she thought it was an experimental novel that just hadn’t gone far enough, and I completely agree with her. I think if the style with the film script interludes went further, into printed visuals or more weirdness with the interludes, more experimental style with the main story, or something, it would have been really good. It just didn’t push hard enough.

The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson was a fun little true crime novel about a young flautist who broke into a small English natural history museum in 2009 and stole hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of preserved rare bird skins dating back to the 19th century. He was a salmon fly-tying enthusiast and prodigy, and old Victorian fly designs used feathers of rare birds. The book first goes through the heist and the judicial proceedings, then examines the niche culture of Victorian fly-tying enthusiasts and obsessives, and then chronicles the author’s attempts to track down some of the missing birds. It was a quick, easy read, but fun and an unusual subject and I quite enjoyed it.

In 2024 I don’t plan on trying to surpass or even reach this year’s number. I’m going to start off the year reading The Recognitions by William Gaddis, then I’m going to re-read a number of books that I come across at work or in conversation and think Huh, I should reread that one of these days. So far, the books I am currently planning to reread: Sometimes A Great Notion by Ken Kesey, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, The People Of Paper by Salvador Plascencia, Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, The Mustache by Emmanuel Carriere, McGlue by Otessa Moshfegh, Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neil, Acid Snow by Larry Mitchell, and Nightwood by Djuna Barnes.

[ulkaralakbarova]

Beverly is the perfect happy homemaker, along with her doting husband and two children, but this nuclear family just might explode when her fascination with serial killers collides with her ever-so-proper code of ethics. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Beverly Sutphin: Kathleen Turner Eugene Sutphin: Sam Waterston Misty Sutphin: Ricki Lake Chip Sutphin: Matthew Lillard Detective Pike: Scott Morgan Detective Gracey: Walt MacPherson Scotty: Justin Whalin Birdie: Patricia Dunnock Carl: Lonnie Horsey Dottie Hinkle: Mink Stole Rosemary Ackerman: Mary Jo Catlett Mr. Stubbins: John Badila Betty Sterner: Kathy Fannon Ralph Sterner: Doug Roberts Carl’s Date: Traci Lords Marvin Pickles: Tim Caggiano Howell Hawkins: Jeff Mandon Father Boyce: Colgate Salsbury Mrs. Jenson: Patsy Grady Abrams Herbie Hebden: Richard Pilcher Timothy Nazlerod: Beau James Judge: Stan Brandorff Luann Hodges: Kim Swann Suzanne Somers: Suzanne Somers Gus: Bus Howard Sloppy: Alan J. Wendl Juror #8: Patricia Hearst Jury Forewoman: Nancy Robinette Rookie Cop: Peter Bucossi Policewoman: Loretto McNally Press A: Wilfred E. Williams Court TV Reporter: Joshua L. Shoemaker Court Groupie A: Rosemary Knower Court Groupie B: Susan Lowe Carl’s Brother: John Calvin Doyle Book Buyer: Mary Vivian Pearce Mean Lady: Brigid Berlin Police Officer: Jordan Brown Vendor: Anthony ‘Chip’ Brienza Flea Market Boy: Jeffrey Pratt Gordon Flea Market Girl: Shelbi Clarke Macho Man: Nat Benchley Dealer: Kyf Brewer Baby’s Mother: Teresa R. Pete Church Baby: Zachary S. Pete Doorman: Richard Pelzman Kid A: Chad Bankerd Kid B: Johnny Alonso Kid C: Robert Roser Joe Flowers: Mike Offenheiser Girl: Lee Hunsaker Burglar A: Michael S. Walter Burglar B: Mojo Gentry Mrs. Taplotter: Gwendolyn Briley-Strand Reporter: Jennifer Mendenhall Joan Rivers: Joan Rivers TV Serial Hag: Catherine Anne Hayes Lady C: Susan Duvall Press: Valerie Yarborough Kid: Jordan Young Camel Lips: Jennifer Finch Camel Lips: Suzi Gardner Camel Lips: Demetra Plakas Camel Lips: Donita Sparks Husband A: John A. Schneider Court Clerk: Lyrica Montague Eugene Sutphin’s Nurse (uncredited): Bess Armstrong Birdie’s Father (uncredited): Greg Coale Video Store Customer (uncredited): David L. Marston Stage Diver (uncredited): Kim McGuire Cop (uncredited): John Poague Club Kid (uncredited): Al Sotto Ted Bundy (voice) (uncredited): John Waters Film Crew: Art Direction: David J. Bomba Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Mark Berger Executive Producer: Joseph M. Caracciolo Jr. Thanks: Paul Reubens Original Music Composer: Basil Poledouris Writer: John Waters Production Design: Vincent Peranio Editor: Janice Hampton Producer: Mark Tarlov Supervising Sound Editor: John Nutt Thanks: Don Knotts Editor: Erica Huggins Director of Photography: Robert M. Stevens Associate Producer: Pat Moran Costume Design: Van Smith First Assistant Director: Robert Rooy Property Master: Brook Yeaton Art Department Production Assistant: Jeffrey Pratt Gordon Carpenter: Thomas Turnbull Thanks: Harry H. Novak Set Decoration: Susan Kessel On Set Dresser: Lianne Williamson Sound Editor: Ernie Fosselius Thanks: Arthur Machen Utility Stunts: G. A. Aguilar Sound Mixer: Rick Angelella First Assistant Director: Mary Ellen Woods Sound Editor: Frank E. Eulner Casting: Paula Herold Set Dresser: Michael Sabo Second Unit Director: Steve M. Davison Sound Editor: Robert Shoup Hairstylist: Kathryn Blondell Sound Re-Recording Mixer: David Parker Stunt Double: Cheryl Wheeler Duncan Assistant Makeup Artist: Janice Kinigopoulos Makeup Artist: Debi Young Makeup Artist: E. Thomas Case Post Production Supervisor: John Currin Assistant Property Master: R. Vincent Smith Music Supervisor: Bones Howe Draughtsman: Rob Simons Additional Hairstylist: Howard ‘Hep’ Preston Assistant Makeup Artist: Barbara Lacy Art Department Coordinator: Sarah Stollman Utility Stunts: Michael Runyard Unit Production Manager: Margaret Hilliard Hairstylist: Ardis Cohen Assistant Production Design: John Lindsey McCormick Makeup Artist: Betty Beebe Sound Recordist: Philip Rogers Producer: John Fiedler Secon...

[biandlesbianliterature]

10 Poetry Collections by Black Queer Women

10 Poetry Collections by Black Queer Women

Poetry has always been an artistic expression. From declarations of love to contemplating the meaning of life, poetry has a way of putting the human experience into words. It’s also an effective way to take a political stance or spark compassion for others’ cultures and ways of life. Here are 10 poetry collections that delve into the experience of Black bisexual, lesbian, and queer writers.

How…

[capjuby]

Où est-elle ::: Koté Li Yé || r. erica doyle

Il y a longtemps j’ai rencontré Un joli garçon

Ensemble nous dormions Dans le ventre de ma mère

Maintenant les rues de nos pères Se soulèvent pour le manger :: Tout ce qui est noir est interdit au Paradis

Dans mes bras mon frère dort, ses dents des perles

Je fais don de la nuit pour que ce somme il puisse avoir :: J’abandonne l’homme qui m’a fait blanche

J’abandonne l’homme qui a libéré ma mère

Je prie à côté de mon crâne

Mon scalp se déroule

:: Je lui fais un nid gris au-dedans de mon cerveau

ma mère dort et rêve de gènes

lèvres mauves vives sur le rachis il respire. Le ciel :: ploie dans mes yeux cherchant sa peau

Les pales d’hélicoptères envahissent notre paix :::

Où est ce Noir Où est-ce Où :: Les pales tranchent, gémissent martèlent les coupoles

Je le fais glisser au bas et hors de mes vertèbres le petit

Il se précipite au bas de l’os et de l’océan :: navigue jusqu’à la maison dans un bateau taillé dans du gommier

Quand il atteint notre île tout le monde est soulagé

bien qu’ils ne m’aient pas oubliée, belsé :: Où est ta sœur, hein ? Où’qu’ ?

Koté belsé yé? Où’qu’?

Koté li yé Koté li yé

Sur le sable Sur la mer parmi les étoiles

Koté li yé Koté li yé Dans l’egun monocellulaire Dans la lune torpide

Koté li yé Koté li yé :: Là :::

Koté li yé se drape autour d’un bâton ; scintille électrique dans le halo d’un taser ; tari à l’aide une bouteille en verre ; :: Là :::

Koté li yé vagin bouche bée dans la nuit ; nuque pendille tendue à des sacs plastiques et des cordes pauvrement nouées ; :: Là :::

Koté li yé belsé Koté?

:::          Je brûle

ma peau brille plus noire, plus laquée

:::          non-mwen sé                  flambó

les cendres tremblent dans le clair de lune

:::         without humanity

fumant mes os enfument le futur

:::          pa bwè afwéchi pou lafiyèv dòt moun

original version on poets.org

photo: widevision photography 

“I shared my mother’s womb with a brother and feel infinitely protective of him; the killings of black men at the hands of the state feels personal, as does working against the causes of this violence, and this poemacknowledges the labor of black women to uplift and protect their communities. Like many other black women in the United States, I, too, have been subjected to racial profiling by law enforcement and am deeply affected by the stories of sexual abuse and murder of women—particularly black, trans, and indigenous women—by those in power. I wrote this poem in solidarity with the #SAYHERNAME movement, which seeks to elevate and address the abuse of and violence against women by authorities. The poem asks, both in English and in Trinidadian French Patois—my grandmother’s native language —‘where is your sister?’ which reminds us to always ask about women and girls. It ends with a Patois proverb that translates roughly to ‘you cannot cure your own illness with the medicine of another’—reminding us that to address injustice, we must use a fine-grained, intersectional approach.” —r. erica doyle

r. erica doyle was born in Brooklyn to Trinidadian immigrant parents.  She earned a BA at Georgetown University, an MFA at The New School, and an MA at New York University. In her poems, she engages themes of intimacy, hunger, and power through the body.

Selected by poet Maggie Nelson, her debut collection, proxy (Belladonna* Books, 2013), won the 2014 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America and was a Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry. PROXY is an unrequited love story in prose poems, where the landscape of the beloved body becomes the windows of New York City, the deserts of North Africa, and the mangroves of the Caribbean. PROXY is a conversation with the calculus, plotting and space against the infinite  capacities of desire. 

In a conversation with Amy King for Boog City, Doyle discussed her approach to proxy’s subject matter, stating, “Hardly anyone was writing about sex the way I knew we were doing it, and feeling it, and sometimes fucking each other up and over. Sex and the body are what make us dangerous—no one would care if we were writing platonic letters to each other about maple leaves. The body is the site where all of this gets worked out, but then, in proxy, everything becomes that body. The sea, the sand, the subway, the boys, the older women on the boardwalks, the platforms.” “Doyle’s most profound gift, in proxy: the relationship between the speaker and her body, a vehicle of desire that is simultaneously female and human,” observed Corrina Bain in a 2014 review of proxy for Muzzle Magazine, noting that doyle often portrays intimacy in close, sharp focus, where “longing, regret, and some brutish physical facts are revealed, but the narrative surrounding them is more or less dissolved.” Doyle’s work has been featured in the anthologies Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles (2008), Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade (2006), Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam (2001), and Best American Poetry (2001). Her honors include fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Cave Canem, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and an Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice Lesbian Writers Fund Award in Poetry. In addition, she has read her work at the Kennedy Center, the National Black Arts Festival, Joe’s Pub, the Nuyorican, the Calabash International Literary Festival in Jamaica, WI and various colleges and universities. Doyle lives in Brooklyn, where she is an administrator in the NYC public schools and facilitates Tongues Afire: A Free Creative Writing Workshop for queer women and trans and gender non-conforming people of color. 

https://rericadoyle.com/ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/r-erica-doyle

[samueldelany]

This February encroaches on nearly a year since the COVID-19 pandemic forced a (re)negotiation of the syntaxes and circumstances of our love, social, and sexual lives--in ways both new and entirely not.

Our cruising is citational--what are the histories of touch, care, and intimate encounter that serve as hauntological guides for innumerable undergrounds, back alleys, and bathhouses?

Our cruising is also against precedent--how do we imagine other ways of being with and together, without requisite reliance on already institutionalized forms that we know fail us, that we know we cannot delight in? How do we begin to rearticulate the contours of our desires, intimacies, and sexual publics and perversions?

In the aftermath of Valentine’s Day, we will read and write against the heterocapitalist romance industry against the cheap sentiments of Hallmark cards and stale Godiva chocolates. Instead we desire, unrepentantly, a smutty valentine.

We will bask in the queer legacies of the past, present, and future.

We will embrace the poetics of smut across poetry, experimental narrative, cinema, sound, architectures, and beyond.

We will celebrate works that titillate, tantalize, and expand how we think of the poetics of smut. We will link the poetics of smut with communal care and harm reduction, as a refusal to concede to institutionally sanctioned mandates.

We will open up to improvisatory practices of queer kinship in the face of heteronormative rigidity, to amorous friendships, and stranger intimacies.

Together we will talk and write into the messy, the transgressive, and the smutty by exploring the techniques, experimentations, and legacies of artists such as Samuel Delany, Kay Gabriel, Cheryl Dunye, Sam Ace, Essex Hemphill, r. erica doyle, Lou Sullivan, Jean Genet, David Wojnarowicz, Dennis Cooper, Lucas di Lima, José Muñoz, and Patrick Califia.

Register here: https://www.poetryproject.org/events/dis-course-1-my-smutty-valentine-queer-kinships-and-the-poetics-of-smut-with-anchoress-syndicate

[aswithasunbeam]

Hey, how are u? I love the 18th century. Do you have any book suggestion about women on that time? Any historical paper or research about it i should read? Like, whatever. From how they were educates to what they ate lol

Oh my gosh, I have so many book suggestions!!

Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800, by Mary Beth Norton

Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence, by Carol Berkin

A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation, by Catherine Allgor

Dear Abigail: The Intimate Lives and Revolutionary Ideas of Abigail Adams and Her Two Remarkable Sisters, by Diane Jacobs (If you like the Schuyler Sisters, I highly recommend you give this book a try - Abigail and her sisters were just as amazing as our favorite trio!)

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, by Annette Gordon-Reed

Finding Charity’s Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland, by Jessica Millward

Phillis Wheatley: Complete Writings

And here’s some more books that have also been featured on Liz Covert’s amazing “Ben Franklin’s World” podcast - so if you don’t have the money to go buy the book right now, you can at least listen to a wonderful, in-depth interview with the historian who wrote it for free!

Elizabeth Seton: American Saint, by Catherine O’Donnell

The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright, by Ann M. Little

Never Caught: The Washington’s Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave Ona Judge, by Erica Dunbar

Maternal Bodies: Redefining Motherhood in Early America, by Nora Doyle

A Woman’s Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution, by Rosemarie Zagarri

Betsy Ross and the Making of America, by Marla R. Miller

Abigail Adams: A Life, by Woody Holton

Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic, by Cassandra A. Good

Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America, by Rachel Hope Cleves

[intimatum]

intertextuality

desire / eating disorder / hunger: «to be the girl who lunges at people−wants to eat them» (letissier) / «a way to take all hungers and boil them down to their essence–one appetite to manage–just one» (knapp)

trauma / trauma theory / visceralities of trauma

writers

ada limón, adrienne rich, agnès varda, alana massey, alejandra pizarnik, alice notley, ana božičević, anaïs nin, andrea dworkin, andrew solomon, angela carter, angélica freitas, angélica liddell, ann cvetkovich, anna akhmatova, anna gien, anne boyer, anne carson, anne sexton, anne waldman, antonella anedda, aracelis girmay, ariana reines, audre lorde, aurora linnea

barbara ehrenreich, bell hooks, bessel van der kolk

carmen maria machado, caroline knapp, carrie lorig, cat marnell, catharine mackinnon, catherynne m. valente, cathy caruth, césar vallejo, chris kraus, christa wolf, clarice lispector, claudia rankine, czesław miłosz

daniel borzutzky, daphne du maurier, daphne gottlieb, david foster wallace, david wojnarowicz, dawn lundy martin, deirdre english, denise levertov, detlev claussen, dodie bellamy, don paterson, donna tartt, dora gabe, dorothea lasky, durs grünbein

édouard levé, eike geisel, eileen myles, elaine kahn, elena ferrante, elisabeth rank, elyn r. saks, emily dickinson, erica jong, esther perel, etty hillesum, eve kosofsky sedgwick

fanny howe, félix guattari, fernando pessoa, fiona duncan, frank bidart, franz kafka

gabriele schwab, gail dines, georg büchner, georges bataille, gertrude stein, gilles deleuze, gillian flynn, gretchen felker-martin

hannah arendt, hannah black, heather christle, heather o'neill, heiner müller, hélène cixous, héloïse letissier, henryk m. broder, herbert hindringer, herbert marcuse

ingeborg bachmann, iris murdoch

jacques derrida, jacques lacan, jade sharma, jamaica kincaid, jean améry, jean baudrillard, jean rhys, jeanann verlee, jeanette winterson, jenny slatman, jenny zhang, jerold j. kreisman, jess zimmerman, jia tolentino, joachim bruhn, joan didion, joanna russ, joanna walsh, johanna hedva, john berger, jörg fauser, joy harjo, joyce carol oates, judith butler, judith herman, julia kristeva, june jordan, junot díaz

karen barad, kate zambreno, katherine mansfield, kathrin weßling, kathy acker, katy waldman, kay redfield jamison, kim addonizio

lacy m. johnson, larissa pham, lauren berlant, le comité invisible, leslie jamison, lidia yuknavitch, linda gregg, lisa diedrich, louise glück, luce irigaray, lynn melnick

maggie nelson, margaret atwood, marguerite duras, marie howe, marina tsvetaeva, mark fisher, martha gellhorn, mary karr, mary oliver, mary ruefle, marya hornbacher, max horkheimer, melissa broder, michael ondaatje, michel foucault, miranda july, miya tokumitsu, monique wittig, muriel rukeyser

naomi wolf, natalie eilbert, natasha lennard, nelly arcan

ocean vuong, olivia laing, ottessa moshfegh

paisley rekdal, patricia lockwood, paul b. preciado, paul celan, peggy phelan

rachel aviv, rainald goetz, rainer maria rilke, rebecca solnit, richard moskovitz, richard siken, robert jensen, roland barthes, ronald d. laing

sady doyle, sally rooney, salma deera, samuel beckett, samuel salzborn, sandra cisneros, sara ahmed, sara sutterlin, sarah kane, sarah manguso, scherezade siobhan, sean bonney, sheila jeffreys, shoshana felman, shulamith firestone, sibylle berg, silvia federici, simone de beauvoir, simone weil, siri hustvedt, solmaz sharif, sophinette becker, soraya chemaly, stephan grigat, susan bordo, susan sontag, suzanne scanlon, sylvia plath

theodor w. adorno, thomas brasch, tiqqun, toni morrison

ursula k. le guin

valerie solanas, virginia l. blum, virginia woolf, virginie despentes

walter benjamin, wisława szymborska, wolfgang herrndorf, wolfgang pohrt

zadie smith, zan romanoff, zoë lianne, zora neale hurston

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"The poem asks, both in English and in Trinidadian French Patois—my grandmother’s native language —‘where is your sister?’ which reminds us to always ask about women and girls. It ends with a Patois proverb that translates roughly to ‘you cannot cure your own illness with the medicine of another’—reminding us that to address injustice, we must use a fine-grained, intersectional approach.”

—R. Erica Doyle, about "Where is she :: Where Is She ::: Koté Li Yé" Read the full poem on poets.org at the link in our bio.

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#Repost @poetsorg

[soleilinfini]

r. erica doyle, the black dykes at 40 (full poem)

[poesiecritique]

approche proxy d’r. erica doyle

de r. erica doyle j’ai lu le Where She is  ::: Koté Li Yé sur poets.org 

Koté li yé Koté li yé :: There::: Koté li yé drapes across a baton; glows electric in shine of taser; pumped dry with glass bottle; :: There::: Koté li yé vagina gape into the night; neck dangle taut with plastic bags and poorly knotted ropes; :: There::: 

poets.org, 1 poème par jour, hop, rare inscription email newletter que je n’ai pas envie de résilier, couvrant toute la poésie américaine (en langue, avec tous glissements, depuis celle anglaise) d’aujourd’hui --- toute, je ne sais pas, impossible de prévaloir mon oeil de cette totalité, cependant, la bonne idée de poets.org, c’est d’inviter des invité.es, qui elleux-mêmes invitent au travers de leurs réseaux qui leur semblent intéressant.es, et pour l’heure invité.es et réseaux ne sont pas si redondant.es, ce n’est pas une poésie blanche d’hommes cis hétéro en postes universitaires qui circule, il y a en a, il y a pas mal d’en postes universitaires, c’est peut-être à cet endroit là que, que ça pêche le plus

r. erica doyle a BA, MFA, MA, a reçu des bourses, eu des résidences, a publié en revue, dans des anthologies mais n’est pas en poste universitaire, elle travaille comme administratrice (ça  reste flou pour moi comme fonction) dans les écoles publiques de NYC et avec Tongues Afire, un worksop d’écritures pour queer, femmes, trans, non-blanches non-conformes ; dans le spectre de l’intersection (il faut lire, à propos de l’intersectionnalité, la non additivité des oppressions, les pages 79 à 99 de Sexe, genre et sexualités, d’Elsa Dorlin, ce chapitre titré Le sujet politique du féminisme), r. erica doyle est noire, lesbienne, enfante d’immigré.e cubain.e, il ne faut sans doute pas toutes ses précisions pour lire r. erica doyle, son écriture tient sans toutes ces précisions, même dans notre cadre social, dans notre habitus de la poésie contemporaine, mais toutes ses précisions sont importantes, r. erica doyle est importante

après avoir lu  Where She is  ::: Koté Li Yé j’ai tout de suite voulu en lire plus, lire plus de cette écriture aux plusieurs langues, cette écriture-chant, répétition comme stance, cette écriture fragmentée, cette écriture où quelque chose de tout ce qui est important éclatait important, j’ai voulu m’approcher davantage, j’ai commandé proxy  

proxy d’r. erica doyle n’a rien à voir, en termes d’écritures, en termes formels, avec Where She is  ::: Koté Li Yé. Ce sont des poèmes-bloc, des poèmes narratifs, c’est une histoire qui déploie dans ce livre carré où presque qui s’architecture en cinq parties, prologue, palimpsest, proxy, phasedown, petroglyph, c’est une histoire de sexe, de désir, d’amour, c’est une rupture et c’est arriver face au désert, le désert, l’immensité du désert et sa grande réalité, sa matérialité qui, s’il reste désert, n’est pas page blanche, la corporéité de la page face à la marche : 

The Sarah is a page. A desert so vast it could only be named “desert”. The thing itself, and the idea of it, and all desert after it what kind of facsimile. Gobi. Sinaï. You climb the hills strewn with rocks behind Mohammed, named like the desert, and the night is falling and donkey brays at your side, irritable. Ali hits it with a pipe that whistles agains its dusky hide. Your Mary Janes are strained with pee and dust. Your feet puh thickly at the half-moon and ankle.The diploma dosen’t care about moon rising, or the fact you have peedon your feet out here. She is trying to keep her knee from breaking. She is pushing on, ahead of you, not looking back, caught up in it was all her own idea. You stumble and your head snaps back as the Milky ay cascades into your mouth. 

proxy, r.erica doyle, ed. Belladona, 2013, p.73

La poésie de r. erica doyle est cela, cette corporéité, en permanence, à partir du corps, et à partir du corps les sentiments. des sentiments le corps, le prologue est magnifique de raccourcis, passant de l’enfance à la conquête à l’amour, passant du corps au corps au corps, au sentiment au sentiment au sentiment, le sentiment n’existe pas sans le corps qui n’existe pas sans sentiment, 

The grasp of the offered hand falling in to spin, craned sequence, flashing before, as if. Curious, curious. The moment you knew everything - when she lifted her eyes from the plate. Her gaze was a solar wind, stripping. All the years I - The horse of your heart.

proxy, r.erica doyle, ed. Belladona, 2013, p.7

même quand l’on se perd dans le corps d’un autre duquel, avec lequel pour lequel le sentiment est absent, c’est l’absence de l’autre dans l’absence du sentiment dans le corps du présent qui est redécouvert, quelque chose comme ça, comme des choses assez simiaires peuvent être décrites par les femmes qu’interrogent Natacha Chetcuti dans Se dire lesbienne. 

dans l’écriture, les écritures d’r. erica doyle il y a différents rythmes, il y a les histoires qu’elle analyse, décrivant les détails, et ailleurs, il y a tout ce qui s’emballe allusif, pas moins précis, l’écriture est respiration, la très précise respiration du souffle retenu, du souffle coupé, de l’halètement quand, et la séducteurice, calcule, distance, sait, observe, enfin parfois cède aussi pour se reprendre et regarder, aussitôt, 

You are hungry. Each one tastes different. Lavish tongue wherever they push your mouth. Creases slick with sweat and hair ant the particular liquid of an armpit. You are not clean. You are not fresh. You are not pleased with extended foreplay. You want the fuck. Your hands as full of cunt as the strech can dare, the edge of pain and fear. Their screams delicious bells pealing, small large rought soft hand grabbing. 

Sometimes you make an offering of yourself. They think they take and you open wide to swallow them whole. 

You are not generous.

One holds herself aloft and fucks you dry with the thick black cock. Unrelenting, fucks your ass, slathers the lube and turns you over again. 

And again, you assume. 

proxy, r.erica doyle, ed. Belladona, 2013, p.18

la mise à nu est brutale, et dans la nudité, ça explose, 

You have been lying since you were six. The Marquis de Sade was all about presentation. Your origin is a story your mother used to quell the troops. Your luteinizing hormon will not release the eggs. Cunt judgment. The gynecologist laughed. You were eighteen years old and she tought your dickless state was a joke. You are not a joke and you have you own dicks. Yourefuse to make love. Take the consumptive tunnel et give it fuck.  The edge of the tub, the arm of the sofa, your brother’s rocking horse, fruit, vegetables, tongues, fists, nipples, fingers, toes, tooothbrushes, bottles, candles, handles, plastic, procelain, silicone, glass.  You are not injured. You are not healing. You are taking it lying down. 

proxy, r.erica doyle, ed. Belladona, 2013, p.26

et puis tout ça ne dit rien, parce qu’au désir, à cette grande force qui traverse, qui combat ce qui est de ce qui n’est pas, de ce qui pourrait et de l’amour qui vient, part, qui ne peut, beauté quelque soit beauté versus société peut-être, exister, qui ne peut à travers soi exister, il y a face au désert, ce désert, tous les détails de ces réalités, qui leur donnent corps, corps sans société n’existe pas et pourtant faire exister des corps et des désirs dans cette société est une gageure sans cesse renouvellée, 

Is seven such a lucky number? Now you’ve changed enough to be cynical. After seven years, you’ve regenerated every cell in you body. After seven years, there’s some new constellation in your house of damage. After seven years, you’ve fucked enough women for know better. After seven years, the slant of her eyes tilts your beautiful, wevering house complete with wife and dog, into the chasm behind the curtain. 

proxy, r.erica doyle, ed. Belladona, 2013, p.10

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500 Best Feminist Fiction

The list was compiled based on votes from the Goodreads community

Fiction of which feminism* is a primary theme. Stories about people challenging and overcoming gender roles, sexism, discrimination, etc.

*Feminism is a range of movements and ideologies that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve equal political, economic, cultural, personal, and social rights for women.

1. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

3. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

4. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

5. The Awakening by Kate Chopin

6. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

7. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

8. The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1) by Marion Zimmer Bradley

9. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

10. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

11. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

12. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

13. Beloved by Toni Morrison

14. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

15. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

16. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

17. Orlando by Virginia Woolf

18. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

19. Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood

20. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

21. The Hours by Michael Cunningham

22. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

23. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

24. Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1) by Tamora Pierce

25. The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood

26. The Women’s Room by Marilyn French

27. Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy

28. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

29. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing

30. Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1) by Octavia E. Butler

31. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

32. The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch

33. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

34. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

35. Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

36. Sula by Toni Morrison

37. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

38. Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3) by Suzanne Collins

39. The V Girl by Mya Robarts

40. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

41. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

42. Lysistrata by Aristophanes

43. The Gate to Women’s Country by Sheri S. Tepper

44. Room by Emma Donoghue

45. Middlemarch by George Eliot

46. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

47. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

48. Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) by Suzanne Collins

49. House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

50. The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan

51. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

52. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

53. Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

54. The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

55. The Clan of the Cave Bear, the Valley of Horses, the Mammoth Hunters, the Plains of Passage (Earth’s Children, #1–4) by Jean M. Auel

56. The Little House Collection (Little House, #1–9) by Laura Ingalls Wilder

57. Fear of Flying by Erica Jong

58. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

59. Kerri’s War (The King Trilogy #3) by Stephen Douglass

60. The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1) by Barbara Kingsolver

61. Paradise by Toni Morrison

62. Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

63. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

64. Carrie by Stephen King

65. Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

66. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

67. Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1) by Kristin Cashore

68. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

69. Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) by L.M. Montgomery

70. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

71. Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler

72. My Ántonia by Willa Cather

73. The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood

74. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

75. The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel

76. Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor

77. Free to Be…You and Me by Marlo Thomas

78. Lilith’s Brood (Xenogenesis, #1–3) by Octavia E. Butler

79. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

80. The Lover by Marguerite Duras

81. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by J.K. Rowling

82. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

83. Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

84. The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek

85. Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

86. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Sisterhood, #1) by Ann Brashares

87. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence

88. Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood

89. The Help by Kathryn Stockett

90. Dietland by Sarai Walker

91. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

92. Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver

93. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

94. The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

95. Fire (Graceling Realm, #2) by Kristin Cashore

96. Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts

97. Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El-Saadawi

98. Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson

99. Meridian by Alice Walker

100. The Telling (Hainish Cycle #8) by Ursula K. Le Guin

101. So Far from God by Ana Castillo

102. The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9) by Philippa Gregory

103. The Firebrand by Marion Zimmer Bradley

104. Divergent (Divergent, #1) by Veronica Roth

105. Deerskin by Robin McKinley

106. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

107. Lady of Avalon (Avalon, #3) by Marion Zimmer Bradley

108. Storm and Silence (Storm and Silence, #1) by Robert Thier

109. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

110. Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters, #1) by Juliet Marillier

111. Egalia’s Daughters: A Satire of the Sexes by Gerd Brantenberg

112. The Blue Sword (Damar, #1) by Robin McKinley

113. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

114. Trickster’s Choice (Daughter of the Lioness, #1) by Tamora Pierce

115. Chains (Seeds of America, #1) by Laurie Halse Anderson

116. The Ruby in the Smoke (Sally Lockhart, #1) by Philip Pullman

117. Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1) by Octavia E. Butler

118. Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

119. The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill

120. Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned by Brian K. Vaughan

121. Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

122. When She Woke by Hillary Jordan

123. The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) by Suzanne Collins

124. Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross

125. Equal Rites (Discworld, #3) by Terry Pratchett

126. Wired by Martha R. Carr

127. Kushiel’s Dart (Phèdre’s Trilogy, #1) by Jacqueline Carey

128. Push by Sapphire

129. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

130. The Woman Who Rides Like a Man (Song of the Lioness, #3) by Tamora Pierce

131. Island of the Blue Dolphins (Island of the Blue Dolphins, #1) by Scott O’Dell

132. Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

133. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

134. Chocolat (Chocolat, #1) by Joanne Harris

135. The Song of the Lioness Quartet (Song of the Lioness, #1–4) by Tamora Pierce

136. The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

137. Little Bee by Chris Cleave

138. The №1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (№1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, #1) by Alexander McCall Smith

139. The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar

140. Wise Child (Doran, #1) by Monica Furlong

141. The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30) by Terry Pratchett

142. Howards End by E.M. Forster

143. The Nightingales of Troy by Alice Fulton

144. Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls #1) by Lisa See

145. Contact by Carl Sagan

146. Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

147. In the Hand of the Goddess (Song of the Lioness, #2) by Tamora Pierce

148. Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys

149. Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang by Joyce Carol Oates

150. Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

151. First Test (Protector of the Small, #1) by Tamora Pierce

152. Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg

153. Copygirl by Anna Mitchael

154. Freyja’s Daughter (Wild Women, #1) by Rachel Pudelek

155. White Oleander by Janet Fitch

156. The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan

157. The Hero and the Crown (Damar, #2) by Robin McKinley

158. Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle, #4) by Ursula K. Le Guin

159. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

160. Beauty by Sheri S. Tepper

161. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire

162. Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf

163. The Summer Before the Dark by Doris Lessing

164. Breaking Dawn (Twilight, #4) by Stephenie Meyer

165. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) by Stieg Larsson

166. Wild Magic (Immortals, #1) by Tamora Pierce

167. The Tiger in the Well (Sally Lockhart, #3) by Philip Pullman

168. Dairy Queen (Dairy Queen, #1) by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

169. The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

170. True Grit by Charles Portis

171. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich

172. Outlander (Outlander, #1) by Diana Gabaldon

173. Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1) by Charlaine Harris

174. One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, #1) by Janet Evanovich

175. A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior #4) by Anaïs Nin

176. The Female Man by Joanna Russ

177. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

178. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

179. Odyssey In A Teacup by Paula Houseman

180. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

181. Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century, #1) by Cherie Priest

182. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

183. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

184. Ice in My Veins by Kelli Sullivan

185. Baise-Moi by Virginie Despentes

186. My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki

187. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

188. Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #1) by Patricia C. Wrede

189. Uglies (Uglies, #1) by Scott Westerfeld

190. Freedom and Necessity by Steven Brust

191. Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue

192. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

193. Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid

194. A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) by George R.R. Martin

195. I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé

196. Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden

197. Fairest by Gail Carson Levine

198. Villette by Charlotte Brontë

199. Poems by Emily Dickinson

200. The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt

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Tomorrow, Sat, 10/12: @bgsqd 1-2 pm Queer womyn writers and literary curators of color, all members of Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon, on the importance of curating and supporting queer literary spaces. R. Erica Doyle, María Fernanda, JP Howard @jphoward_poet , & Nicole Shawan Junior @nicoleshawanjunior @womenwritebloom And 4-5:30 Queer & Trans Zine Reading w/ @nycfeministzinefest NYC-based zine and comics creators – – @jbbrager (My Gender is Saturn Return), Cassandra Leveille @queerlysober J Hansen, Quinn Milton (The Pope is Trans), Zefyr Lisowski @zefrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr & Charles Theonia @femmescapes and Ximena Izquierdo @huacatayy – read from their work, a spectacle of queer visions and reckless imagination. All part of @rainbowbookfair @lgbtcenternyc noon-6, Sat, 10/12 (at Bureau of General Services-Queer Division) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3e6RTgFzZB/?igshid=6j3i48seo01o