Awards
- Winner of Lambda Literary Award 2009
Overview
A visceral look at the bizarre entanglement of destructive and creative forces,Live Through Thisis a collectionof original stories, essays, artwork, and photography. It explores the use of art to survive abuse, incest,madness and depression, and the often deep-seated impulse toward self-destruction including cutting, eatingdisorders, and addiction. Here, some of our most compelling cartoonists, novelists, poets, dancers,playwrights, and burlesque performers traverse the pains and passions that can both motivate and destroywomen artists, and mark a path for survival. Taken together, these artful reflections offer an honest andhopeful journey through a woman's silent rage, through the power inherent in struggles with destruction, andthe ensuing possibilities of transforming that burning force into the external release of art. With contributions by Nan Goldin, bell hooks, Patricia Smith, Cristy C. Road, Carol Queen, Annie Sprinkle,Elizabeth Stephens, Carolyn Gage, Eileen Myles, Fly, Diane DiMassa, Bonfire Madigan Shive, Inga Muscio,Kate Bornstein, Toni Blackman, Nicole Blackman, Silas Howard, Daphne Gottleib, and Stephanie Howell.
Full Product Details
Author: Sabrina Chapadjiev ,
Sabrina Chap
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Imprint: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 20.40cm
Weight: 0.359kg
ISBN: 9781609804367
ISBN 10: 1609804368
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 11 September 2012
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
The 21 artists, who share their stories of madness, trauma, addiction, abuse and self-destruction, and their relationship to art, leave no vulnerable detail unwritten. Shameless The 21 artists, who share their stories of madness, trauma, addiction, abuse and self-destruction, and their relationship to art, leave no vulnerable detail unwritten. -- Shameless
The 21 artists, who share their stories of madness, trauma, addiction, abuse and self-destruction, and their relationship to art, leave no vulnerable detail unwritten. <br>-- Shameless<br> <br><br>
The 21 artists, who share their stories of madness, trauma, addiction, abuse and self-destruction, and their relationship to art, leave no vulnerable detail unwritten. -Shameless The [contributors to] Live Through This testify to lives of survival-turning tears and tendencies toward mania, depression, and self-mutilation into powerful lessons. -Curve Magazine Captivating, concise, and humbling, Live Through This is easy to put down between pieces and become just as immersed upon picking it up again. -Feminist Review The essays and visuals that make up Live Through This plum the depths of out-of-control lives, examining how self-destruction functions as both a hindrance and a productive challenge. -Bitch Magazine
The 21 artists, who share their stories of madness, trauma, addiction, abuse and self-destruction, and their relationship to art, leave no vulnerable detail unwritten. Shameless
Author Information
SABRINA CHAPADJIEV is a playwright, spoken word artist, andsinger-songwriter originally from the suburbs of Chicago. She is founder of theall-woman songwriter series Chicks that Kick, and editor of the zine Cliterature- 18Interviews with Women Writers. Her plays, including perhaps merely quiet, havebeen produced in the United States and Europe.
