Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction [NOOK Book]

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A visceral look at the bizarre entanglement of destructive and creative forces, Live Through This (a finalist for the 2008 Lambda Literary Awards) is a collection of original stories, essays, artwork, and photography. It explores the use of art to survive abuse, incest, madness and depression, and the often deep-seated impulse toward self-destruction including cutting, eating disorders, and addiction. Here, some of our most compelling cartoonists, novelists, poets, dancers, playwrights, and burlesque performers ...
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Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction

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Overview

A visceral look at the bizarre entanglement of destructive and creative forces, Live Through This (a finalist for the 2008 Lambda Literary Awards) is a collection of original stories, essays, artwork, and photography. It explores the use of art to survive abuse, incest, madness and depression, and the often deep-seated impulse toward self-destruction including cutting, eating disorders, and addiction. Here, some of our most compelling cartoonists, novelists, poets, dancers, playwrights, and burlesque performers traverse the pains and passions that can both motivate and destroy women artists, and mark a path for survival. Taken together, these artful reflections offer an honest and hopeful journey through a woman's silent rage, through the power inherent in struggles with destruction, and the ensuing possibilities of transforming that burning force into the external release of art.
With contributions by Nan Goldin, bell hooks, Patricia Smith, Cristy C. Road, Carol Queen, Annie Sprinkle, Elizabeth Stephens, Carolyn Gage, Eileen Myles, Fly, Diane DiMassa, Bonfire Madigan Shive, Inga Muscio, Kate Bornstein, Toni Blackman, Nicole Blackman, Silas Howard, Daphne Gottleib, and Stephanie Howell.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781609800123
  • Publisher: Seven Stories Press
  • Publication date: 1/4/2011
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • File size: 5 MB

Meet the Author

SABRINA CHAPADJIEV is a playwright, spoken word artist, and singer-songwriter originally from the suburbs of Chicago. She is founder of the all-woman songwriter series Chicks that Kick, and editor of the zine Cliterature: 18 Interviews with Women Writers. Her plays, including perhaps merely quiet, have been produced in the United States and Europe.
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Table of Contents

Preface 9

Long, Long Thoughts Carol Queen Queen, Carol 15

Lady Lazarus: Uncoupletlng Suicide and Poetry Daphne Gottlieb Gottlieb, Daphne 27

Fighting Fire with Acid Rain: A Story on Coming Down Cristy C. Road Road, Cristy C. 37

A Little Hell Breaks Loose Patricia Smith Smith, Patricia 47

Total Disaster: Sketching Sanity Fly 65

Slash an' Burn Inga M. Muscio Muscio, Inga M. 79

SHE'S LOST CONTROL AGAIN (Or How Alice Learned to Drive) Nicole Blackman Blackman, Nicole 91

Double Trouble in the Love Art Lab: Our Breast Cancer Experiments Elizabeth Stephens Stephens, Elizabeth Annie Sprinkle Sprinkle, Annie 105

Friends as Heroes Silas Howard Howard, Silas 119

Rappin' My Wounds Toni Blackman Blackman, Toni 129

The Artful Art of the Role of Art in the Ugly Art of Survival Diane DiMassa DiMassa, Diane 141

Weight Watcher Stephanie Howell Howell, Stephanie 149

Rewriting the Script Carolyn Gage Gage, Carolyn 163

Cello Speak: Exploring New Languages for Madness Bonfire Madigan Shive Shive, Bonfire Madigan 173

No more crying Bell Hooks Hooks, Bell 187

Self-Portraits Nan Goldin Goldin, Nan 193

Silent Body, Speaking Body Anonymous 199

Art as Prayer Kate Bornstein Bornstein, Kate 207

Live Through That?! Eileen Myles Myles, Eileen 219

Resources 225

Acknowledgments 239

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