Welcome to CRTW 201 Blog--please link to this blog, and to your other classmates' blogs. I will organize this as soon as I can. Excited to see you blogging!
As an introduction to blogging, I'd like you to check out Dodie Bellamy's /
http://dodie-bellamy.blogspot.com/ -- she'll read at EMU on February 7th at 2pm in the Student Center Auditorium. She blogged about the subject of her newest book, "the buddhist," prior to the book's publication. Here's some info from a
review of the book: "
Bellamy initially detailed her relationship with the buddhist's title character (intentionally spelled out in lowercase letters) on her blog alongside entries that reveal a complex and intelligent woman deeply engaged with her world, both culturally and interpersonally, a woman who arguably should know better than to entertain a toxic romance. It starts out well."
Hope this gets you excited for the reading! Here's the blurb on her, from
CRTW @ EMU's site:
Dodie Bellamy is one of the originators in the New Narrative literary movement, which attempts to use the tools of experimental fiction and critical theory and apply them to narrative storytelling. Her work is frequently associated with that of Dennis Cooper, Kathy Acker and Eileen Myles. She is the author of the buddhist(Publication Studio, 2011) and Letters of Mina Harker (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004); as well as a collection of fiction, memoirs and essays in Pink Steam(Suspect Thoughts, 2004); an epistolary collaboration on AIDS with the late Sam D’Allesandro entitled Real (Talisman House, 1994); and a cross-genre collection of pedagogical essays and fictions in Academonia (Krupskaya, 2006).\
Her book Cunt-Ups (Tender Buttons, 2002), which is a radical feminist revision of the "cut-up" pioneered by William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, won the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Poetry.
She writes: “Cunt-Ups is a hermaphroditic salute to William Burroughs and Kathy Acker’s, “Is the cut-up a male form?” I've always considered it so -- needing the violence of a pair of scissors in order to reach nonlinearity. Oddly, even though I've spent up to four hours on each cunt-up, afterwards I cannot recognize them -- just like in sex, intense focus and then sensual amnesia.”
Her essays and reviews have appeared in The Village Voice, The San Francisco Chronicle, Bookforum, Out/Look, Nest, and the San Diego Reader as well as numerous literary journals and web sites. In January 2006, she curated an installation of Kathy Acker’s clothes for White Columns, New York’s oldest alternative art space. She lives in San Francisco with her partner Kevin Killian with whom she has edited over 150 issues of the literary/art zine, Mirage #4/Period(ical).
Dodie's work has been widely anthologized and has appeared in, among others, the anthologies Pills, Thrills, Chills and Heartache, The Best American Erotica 2001, High Risk, The Art of Practice: 45 Contemporary Poets, A Poetics of Criticism, The New Fuck You, Primary Trouble andMoving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women.
She is currently working on The Fourth Form, a multi-dimensional sex novel.
Asked to write a paper on alternative forms of memoir for the 2007 Modern Language Association conference, Bellamy wrote,
Barf Manifesto(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008). A review of it can be found at:
http://www.sfbg.com/2008/12/03/barf-manifesto
