Leave Your Body Behind - Softcover

Doller, Sandra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934254576 ISBN 13: 9781934254578

Publisher: Les Figues Press, 2015

Synopsis

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Memory is a faulty showcase, whether expressed as confession or nostalgia. In LEAVE YOUR BODY BEHIND, Sandra Doller forges a new space for remembrance as she actively relives, revives, and revamps her own memories. With anarchic shifts from reverie to citation, from criticism to play, from Madame Bovary in a gold lamé onesie to Bob Dylan hanging out with a side of Science and Memory, Doller feeds us a slush of images and prose that she trusts us to properly mutilate and misconstrue. Construction and demolition become inseparable as we are brought to the realization that the child you were is the one you kill and the person you are now is never the one you once knew. Or did you mishear yourself in the first place?

About this title

About the Author:

Sandra Doller's books include Oriflamme, CHORA (Ahsahta Press, 2010), and MAN YEARS (Subito Press, 2011), and two chapbooks: Mystérieuse by Éric Suchère and Memory of the Prose Machine. The founder & editrice of 1913 Press & 1913 A JOURNAL OF FORMS, Doller has taught at Hollins University and Boise State University, and she currently teaches film, literature, and writing at Cal State-San Marcos. She lives in California.

Review:

Leave Your Body Behind may be a text ''in between'' between prose and poetry, between remembering and the present, between the choice words of others and the author's own insistent inventiveness but there s no chiaroscuro here. Sandra Doller's idiom and rhythm come out swinging, somehow both sly and street fight. Her book contains everything from gossip to wisdom to humor to lament to literary and art criticism to pure, rollicking poetry. It is a seismograph ready and able to take stock of the stakes of being a writing human, a human writing, now. --Maggie Nelson

Sandra Doller refuses to feed the machine. She improvises, saturates, estranges, flees. Her gaze is everywhere and unabashed. An ecstatic. She is a synthesizer of the highest order, a wizard of the slipping-off word. --Noy Holland

Leave Your Body Behind is a beautiful cyborg of a book with lipstick dripping out of the wrong orifice, which is a problem. What is solid in this book becomes, more quickly than our ability to process such things, liquid, autonomous, real. --Bhanu Kapil

About this edition

• Publisher: Les Figues Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1934254576
• ISBN 13: 9781934254578
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 134