The New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading

by Eileen Myles, Liz Kotz

Overview

A unique and provocative anthology of lesbian writing, guaranteed to soothe the soulful and savage the soulless. Includes Adele Bertei, Holly Hughes, Sapphire, Laurie Weeks, and many more.

Borrowing its name from the notorious '60s Ed Sanders magazine, Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts, the editors have figured a way to rehone its countercultural and frictional stance with style and aplomb. A unique and provocative anthology of lesbian writing, guaranteed to soothe the soulful and savage the soulless. Includes Adele Bertei, Holly Hughes, Sapphire, Laurie Weeks, and many more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781570270574
Publisher:	MIT Press
Publication date:	06/01/1995
Series:	Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	690,685
Product dimensions:	4.50(w) x 6.94(h) x 0.66(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Eileen Myles, named by BUST magazine "the rock star of modern poetry," is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and prose, including Chelsea Girls, Cool for You, Sorry, Tree, and Not Me (Semiotext(e), 1991), and is the coeditor of The New Fuck You (Semiotext(e), 1995). Myles was head of the writing program at University of California, San Diego, from 2002 to 2007, and she has written extensively on art and writing and the cultural scene. Most recently, she received a fellowship from the Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Foundation.

Liz Kotz teaches in the Art History Department at the University of California, Riverside.

Dodie Bellamy is an American novelist, nonfiction author, journalist, and editor.