Reminder: Free: Dodie Bellamy reads from Cunt Norton at City Lights... @ Tue Dec 3, 2013 7pm - 8pm (Queer Things)

more details » Free: Dodie Bellamy reads from Cunt Norton at City Lights Books Dodie Bellamy Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013, 7:00 P.M., City Lights Booksellers, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA reading from CUNT NORTON published by Les Figues In Cunt Norton, the sequel to her unforgettable Cunt Ups, Dodie Bellamy "cunts" The Norton Anthology of Poetry (1975 edition), setting her text-ravenous cut-ups loose to devour the canonical voices of English literature. The texts that emerge from this sexual-linguistic encounter are monstrous, beautiful, unashamed: 33 erotic love poems ("the greatest fuck poem in the English language," according to Ariana Reines) that lust after the very aesthetic they resist. "These patriarchal voices that threatened to erase me—of course I love them as well," Bellamy writes. Even as Cunt Norton dismembers the history of English poetry, "cunting" Chaucer and Shakespeare, Emerson and Lowell, it simultaneously allows new members to arise and fill in the gaps, transforming the secret into the explicit, the classically beautiful into the wonderfully grotesque. Bellamy's cunted texts breathe life into literary "masters" with joy, honesty, hilarity, and insatiable passion. Praise for Cunt Norton: "My poem(s) seem to take to the new medium quite well." —John Ashbery "I think this could be the most joyful book on Earth." —Ariana Reines Dodie Bellamy's books include the buddhist, Academonia, Pink Steam, Cunt-Ups, and The Letters of Mina Harker. Time Out New York named her chapbook Barf Manifesto "Best Book Under 30 Pages" for 2009. She has been awarded a Firecracker Alternative Book Award and a Bay Guardian Goldie Award for Literature. She is a frequent contributor to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Open Space blog, and she teaches in various creative writing programs. http://www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=event&event_id=1959 When Tue Dec 3, 2013 7pm – 8pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • Larry-bob Roberts - creator

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