The Thicket of Context: Brian Teare's Companion Grasses
Brian Teare
Companion Grasses
Omnidawn, 2013
Paperback, $17.95
112 pages Brian Teare’s Companion Grasses is a book that immediately immerses the reader in the thicket of context surrounding it: webs of language and history both inescapable and formative, each erotic and painful in its own measure. The book pulses hardest on the moments when these webs fuse—when grammar is touch, or the pleasure of naming allows experience to derail time. Here, the press of life against lif
Brooding Men, Bodice-Rippers and Spanking: the Truth About Today’s Romance and Erotica Novels
Editors' note: For us, inclusive feminism involves sex-positive feminism. Reynolds' exploration of the complicated relationship between feminism, writing, patriarchal ideals, and romance and erotica novels is fresh, thought-provoking, and probably NSFW. Enjoy! I write about sex. I write about sex a lot. I write entire books where the point is to stuff in as many sex scenes as I can. My novels have boy/boys meet girl, fall in lust/love, have a lot of amazing sex, and decide to
The Scientific Method of Storytelling: Thalia Field's Bird Lovers, Backyard
Thalia Field
Bird Lovers, Backyard
New Directions, 2010
Paperback, $16.95
144 pages “Given all the paper in the world to write on, what would we really have to say?” Thalia Field asks in the last few pages of Bird Lovers, Backyard. As I read her collection of essays, I often had to ask myself this question. As in, what is Field trying to say? There is the theme of time apparent in some of her essays (“Apparatus for the Inscription of a Falling Body” and “This Crime Has a N
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