Keep This Sex 'in' Sight- book of essays by Elvan Zabunyan, Marie Joseph Bertini and Francoise Gange.

 

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Keep This Sex Out Of My Sight

The Undisplayable of Female Sex as Revealed by Women

Essays by Elvan Zabunyan, Marie Joseph Bertini and Francoise Gange.

Ever since women artists gave themselves the right to declare their sexual fantasies, their work has yielded revelations for those who once declared their fantasies for them. In a raw language that ignores taboos, these women speak of sex like Courbet painted "The Origin of the World." Keep This Sex Out of My Sight is a hymn to women's sex, a celebration of feminine desire, so often erased, hidden and forgotten. For the artists whose texts and images appear here, obscenity and pornography are responses to the male fear of the female sexual organ, and confronting them cancels their power. more ... click here

Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer

a bag of books - fav book list

A friend recently asked me what I'm reading, my best book list, that sort of thing and when I shook myself free of the phd mind, (and jet-lag)  I  realized I was still reading 'other' stuff. So heres my list...

My fav... writers in no special order- well there is an order but it doesn't really matter, they are more like a mob of my favorites... like a bag of liquorish all-sorts you cant go wrong.

Gertrude Stein - everything (of course)

Sam Beckett - ditto

Rosemary Waldrop

Carla Harryman

Gail Scott – My Paris

W. G. Sebald

Laurence Sterne – The Life and Times …

Leslie Scalopino - yes, so sharp, yeikes

William Gass - everything

Faulkner -his focus on sound not image

Anne Carson- everything

Elizabeth Crane - You need to be happy to enter here

Raymond Federman - so sadly missed

Marguerite Duras

Roland Barthes- yep

Carole Maso - the lot

Helene Cixous - White Ink and Ladders on writing

Luce Irigaray- especially her work on love, love, love

Lydia David

Epson – 7 types of Ambiguity

Paul Celan

Joe Brainard – I remember

Lingis - Dangerous Emotions and eeevvverything

David Markson – The Last Novel

Clarice Lispector - everything

Paul C. Metcalf –  Genoa, Wild West, Patagoni, The Middle Passage, Apalache

Kathy Acker- just about everything

Clark Coolidge - yep specially like the work he did with Guston

Heres another list by Raphael Rubinstein 'Gathered, Not Made: A Brief History of Appropriative writing...' that I like alot, mainly because of the serious word play.

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