Dust

by L. A. Warman

Overview

A devastating apocalyptic love story of two immortals.

Two anonymous lovers traverse the vast and lonely desert which has blighted most of the continent. In their possession is the gift of the Vapors, a mystical substance which allows them to transcend death. Yet as they explore the desert realm and each other, they cannot help but wonder if their entwined destiny resides somewhere beyond transcendence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781965874059
Publisher:	MIT Press
Publication date:	02/11/2025
Pages:	136
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.34(d)

About the Author

L.A. Warman is a poet, performer, and teacher currently based in New York City. Warman is the author of Whore Foods, an erotic novella which received a Lambda Literary Award in 2020. She is the founder of Warman School, a non-accredited and body based learning center. The Warman School has taught over 1000 students online and in person. She teaches topics such as erotics, death, depression, and god. Pitchfork named her piece "ADMSDP" one of the top 100 songs of 2020. She has had performance and installation work in shows at MOCA Cleveland, ICA Philadelphia, Time-Based Art Festival, Poetry Project, and Open Engagement. Warman has presented performative poetics research at Brown University, Hamilton College, Reed College, Hampshire College, and others.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"This book is an instant waypoint on my return to the revelation: if nothing else, my tears have a place where they belong—mixed into the dust of others."
—Wilmer Wilson IV

"Dust has an elemental fetish and I am here for it. Part post-apocalyptic kink manual, part poetic sexual reckoning at the end of the world when humanity has been wiped off the face of the planet, LA writes for the future that is already here. It terrifies me and helps me understand myself better."
—Callum Angus

"Dust is a thrilling provocation. It starts in a cave and weaves through treacherous subterranean passages before bursting through the floor made by our intrinsic urges of erotic and death. In focusing on time yet halting its expansion, LA Warman lights the way into the very ground through her hypnotic voice, equal parts soothing and heartache."
—Cole Lu

"If the only language is the tangle-suck of gnarled clit-slash-screech-and-careening, with Warman, we are walking wretchedly together towards what-is-next vs. what-it-was-slash-what-it-is. Built from the survival of a split with knowing, Warman rubs, swallows, and takes us to a salty shape-shifting precipice: What is it to be extinct, desired, inhabited, evacuated, and exhumed by another? Read this timeless hot, spatial, bodily, and pain-soaked durational performance that takes its form as a solo, duet and a collective concert disguised as their second book. Warman’s sex unfurls militant mourning and survival as an echo into the end of time."
—Julie Tolentino