The Forests of the Vicious Red Relic, Love: a companion to the memoir - Softcover

Springer, Anna Joy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1937543315 ISBN 13: 9781937543310

Publisher: Jaded Ibis Press, 2013

Synopsis

A full-color miniature companion to the fabulist memoir, The Vicious Red Relic, Love by Anna Joy Springer. With original art by Teresa Carmody, Rachel Carns, Paula Cronin, Kristie Fleming, Shelley Jackson, Leon Mostovoy, Tara Jane O'Neil, Maude Place, Rhani Remedes, Cristy C. Road, beldAn Sezen, Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens (Love Art Lab), and Miriam Klein Stahl. PRAISE FOR THE VICIOUS RED RELIC, LOVE “Should be on every bookshelf. “ —Laurie Weeks, Thebes Best LGBT Books of 2012 “There is only one Anna Joy Springer. Only one. Her words take me from kitten to monster and back again in a way only she can do. I love this book.” — Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre “Like the allegorical forests described in the text, these collages are worth getting lost in.” —American Book Review “Anna Joy Springer writes about sex, lust, passion, power so damn well, too damn well.  She doesn't separate any of it. She keeps it close. Tight and scary.” —The Collagist “This writing just turns me on. The blatantness. The naming. The pain of becoming and being revealed by way of the prurient requirements of our relations.” —The Lit Pub "The Vicious Red Relic Love swallows you into an exquisite world full of heartbreak and longing...and one of the best books of 2011.” —Lambda Literary “The best I can say of a book is that once read, it will live perfectly inside you forever, and that this circumstance allows you to feel more intimately a part of the world. The Vicious Red Relic, Love is that kind of book, an act and product borne of great, imperfect love.” —HTMLGiant “It’s rare to find a book that can carve out a place in my subconscious and affect my dreams. Anna Joy Springer’s The Vicious Red Relic, Love is one of those rare gems.... The Vicious Red Relic, Love, explores sexuality and feminism. It tackles the terribleness of molestation and death, and is probably the most punk rock thing I’ve ever read in my entire life. Utterly devastating.” —Razorcake

About this title

About the Author:

Anna Joy Springer a prose writer and visual artist who makes grotesques – creating hybrid texts that combine sacred and profane elements to evoke intensely embodied conceptual-emotional experiences in readers. Formerly a singer in the Bay Area bands, Blatz, The Gr’ups, and Cypher in the Snow, Anna Joy has toured the United States and Europe being a wild feminist punk performer, and she has also toured with the all-women spoken word extravaganza, Sister Spit. She is author of the illustrated novella The Birdwisher (Birds of Lace) and a graphic narrative, In An Egg, forthcoming. She received her MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University in 2002, and she is an Assistant Professor of Literature at University of California, San Diego where she truly loves teaching courses in Experimental Writing, Graphic Texts, and Postmodern Feminist Literatures.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jaded Ibis Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1937543315
• ISBN 13: 9781937543310
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100
• Illustrator: Carmody Teresa, Carns Rachel, Cronin Paula, Fleming Kristie, Jackson Shelley, Mostovoy Leon, O'Neil Tara Jane, Place Maude, Remedes Rhani