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This visceral, thrilling collection of stories by prescient lesbian writer Camille Roy explores what it takes to survive as a young sex and gender outlaw in the heart of America.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editor¿s Introduction
Agatha Letters
Artificial
BABY
Craquer
Experimentalism
The Faggot
Fetish
Friends
Isher House
Lynette #1
My X Story
Perils
Sex Life
Sex Talk (with Abigail Child)
Tanya
Under Grid
Afterword by Camille Roy
Info autore
CAMILLE ROY is a San Francisco-based writer and performer of fiction, poetry, and plays. Her books include
SHERWOOD FOREST (Futurepoem Books),
Cheap Speech (Leroy),
Craquer, (2nd Story Books),
Swarm (Black Star Series),
THE ROSY MEDALLIONS (Kelsey St Press) and
COLD HEAVEN (O Books). Her recent work has been published in
Amerarcana and
Open Space (SFMoma blog). Roy has taught creative writing in multiple genres and forms at several institutions, most recently at San Francisco State University.
ERIC SNEATHEN is a poet living in Oakland. His first collection,
Snail Poems, was published by Krupskaya. With Daniel Benjamin he edited
The Bigness of Things: New Narrative and Visual Culture and organized
Communal Presence: New Narrative Writing Today. A Ph.D. candidate in Literature at UC Santa Cruz, he writes about the history of LGBT poetry and innovative writing of the San Francisco Bay Area. Essays can be found at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art¿s
Open Space platform,
Social Text Online, and in
From Our Hearts to Yours¿ (ON, 2017), edited by Rob Halpern and Robin Tremblay-McGaw.
LAUREN LEVIN is a poet and mixed-genre writer, author of ¿
The Braid¿ (Krupskaya, 2016) and
Justice Piece // Transmission¿ (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2018). With Emji Spero, they were developmental editor for ¿
We Both Laughed in Pleasure: the Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan¿ edited by Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma (Timeless, Infinite Light/Nightboat). From 2011-2014, they co-edited the
Poetic Labor Project blog. Their gender identity is some mix of belated queer, Jewish great-aunt, and aspirational Frank O¿Hara. They are still figuring it out. They live in Richmond, CA, are from New Orleans, LA, and are committed to queer art, intersectional feminism, being a parent, and anxiety.
Riassunto
This visceral, thrilling collection of stories by prescient lesbian writer Camille Roy explores what it takes to survive as a young sex and gender outlaw in the heart of America.
Prefazione
Advance Reader and Digital Advance Reader Copies
Outreach to Feminist Media
Outreach to LGBTQ+ Media
Social media campaign
Virtual launch
Testo aggiuntivo
"Reading Honey Mine, I am constantly crashing through meaning and emerging on the other side—as the author-specter Camille Roy is my witness."—The Paris Review
“This inventive and substantial collection from poet and performance artist Roy (Sherwood Forest) demonstrates the author’s sharp wit and laser-eyed analysis of gender and class issues, punctuated by perspective on the realities of being a lesbian in the U.S. …Fans of experimental fiction should take note.”—Publishers Weekly Starred Review
"Camille Roy’s rich literary collection Honey Mine features outcasts and shows what it’s like to live as one."—Foreword Reviews
"The crystalline, perfectly-tuned prose and charming characters of Honey Mine are more than enough, I think, to leave any reader happy; but for those with any relationship to lesbianism, past or present, this book is a new sacred text."—Full Stop
"The title Honey Mine is an endearment—my beloved—and a fanciful place of extraction, the site where sweetness is dug from a dark crevice. Roy hands us chunks of honeycomb to cram into our mouths and let drip from our chins. Don’t you want to come along?"—Tripwire
"It’s poetry stretched over mountains of prose, mythic and dirty like a genius’s sex diary told outta the side of their mouth in a torn bathrobe with a topical map on the back that includes genitals, wisdom & lore. It’s held together by love – lost & known. And the healing power of silence. Honey Mine is one hell of a unique book. It’s a study. It disrupts the category, be it literature, fiction, the essay or the lesbian. It says: whatever you have the nerve to do, I will also do. Honey Mine is an inspirational work."—Eileen Myles
"This is a huge book; it belongs in the cannon of the best queer writers. To read Honey Mine is to be inhabited by the largesse of the word “lesbian,” body, sex, sexuality. And by a lesbian aesthetic of human relations, bookended by the author’s magnificent enduring love with her late partner Angie. These fictions, in resisting…before the theorems arrive… teleological primness, parade language nimble enough to absorb class, cities, memory, grief, shame, without sacrificing a cornucopia of pleasures. Like a tarte tatin, Honey Mine spills over with deliciousness. My tactic vis a vis narrative, says Camille Roy, is really just to bring abandonment into the relationship. She succeeds marvellously."—Gail Scott
"From Camille Roy’s work, I have learned literal worlds; frog-kicked through summers in musty, abandoned cabins, tread the concrete divisions of Chicago’s South Side. In this expansive, formally promiscuous collection, 'stories don’t work.' Fiction and fantasy function not as creative effacements of the brute facts of queer life, but as the very means by which that life innovates itself—as relational, as fickle, as an ongoing 'survival of self.' Gauntlet of girlhood ideology, love letter peeled open like a garlic clove. Honey Mine takes apart the toolbox of narrative mechanisms; the aberrant languages and intimacies we use to scrape, mould and manipulate one another. Never bowing to romanticism and yet unmistakable in its communion, this is a book that has, in many ways, seeded and re-made me. I am so grateful for it."—Trisha Low
