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Slack Pussy
December 14, 2016 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm GMT
Session 2: Calamities (2016). Chosen by Eileen Myles
In the words of Myles: ‘I love her writing always have because there’s a peculiar collective in her individual.’
Renee Gladman is a poet, novelist, essayist and teacher who has published ten books to date. She is best known for ‘The Ravicka Novels’ trilogy, in which she writes about an invented city-state called Ravicka, ‘a foreign “other” place fraught with the crises of American urban experience, not least the fundamental problem of how to move through the world at all.’
We will be reading extracts from her latest fragmented essay Calamities, published by Wave Books.
Calamities reflects – among other things – on lesbian relationships, the experience of being a woman of colour in a predominantly white US university system, and what it means to write, often investigating social structures on the level of the sentence.
Slack Pussy
The aim of Slack Pussy is to map out a can(y)on of living, female writers – one that’s feminist and queer oriented. Will be reading in a chain, with each author recommending the next. The first text in the chain was a chapter from Eileen Myles’s autobiographical novel, Chelsea Girls (1994).