The Drunkards

When Duchamp's Bride Stripped Bare was shattered/damaged/transformed upon being relocated to the Brooklyn Museum, through this violent act, this accidental fracture, a new manifestation of the medium was born. So too in LM Rivera¿s The Drunkards is there violence against the body, not in and of itself, but the body as symbolic mover; and in the interplay between intoxication and violence, in being intoxicated on one¿s own violence, so too do violence and transformation become habituated in art. This intoxicated personhood transcends the divisions of the biological self, elevating consciousness to the selfless space of The Book, a constantly unfolding interiority in which the self¿s unspecialness is allowed to touch the sublime.

About the author

LM Rivera is a writer and coeditor of Called Back Books. His work has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, and he is the author of The Little Legacies and The Drunkards. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Product details

• Authors: L. M. Rivera, Lm Rivera
• Publisher: Omnidawn Publishing, Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781632430540
• ISBN: 978-1-63243-054-0
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 226 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 181 g
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama