Out of Everywhere: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America and the UK

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Shriver, Lionel (November 12, 2017). "Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng – review". The Guardian . Retrieved January 23, 2018. Also, is it just me, or does Tiptree have some severe hang-ups over the place of women in society? I suppose sexism was a much worse problem in the 60s and 70s, but still, there's lots of messed-up things going on in these stories and rapes and the like. In 1998, the Richardson home in Shaker Heights, Ohio, catches fire. Arson is suspected, as there were multiple small fires. It is a virtuoso performance, as is the dialogue between Frank O'Hara and Roland Barthes ("A False Account of Talking with Frank O'Hara and Roland Barthes in Philadelphia") that concludes the book. The two seemingly unlike writers, it turns out, have a lot more in common than their sexual proclivities and their love of cigarettes; they share an obsession with le mot juste and with precision of language that transcends whatever their differences of nationality, style, and manner. Slow Music:" The last woman and man want to stay on earth and do obsolete human things, everyone has been uploaded to a "river." The man and woman fail and ultimately join the flow as well.

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Ended up reading this by accident. The story quality is rather erratic, and some parts are definitely dated (as would be expected with older sci-fi short stories). Still, there are definitely some way cool ideas in it, even if I didn't entirely like where Tiptree went with 'em. So still interesting, all in all. The Tiptree fiction reflects Alli Sheldon's interests and concerns throughout her life: the alien among us (a role she portrayed in her childhood travels), the health of the planet, the quality of perception, the role of women, love, death, and humanity's place in a vast, cold universe. The Otherwise Award (formerly the Tiptree Award) has celebrated science fiction that "expands and explores gender roles" since 1991. When a bomb goes off at a shopping mall, shattering his little sister’s childhood, his family decide to sell everything and flee Syria. So begins Sami’s journey across Europe, and into danger, poverty and fear.Ng is from Shaker Heights, Ohio, where the book is set. [2] She said that after being away from Shaker Heights for ten years, she "appreciated more all the ways Shaker Heights is unusual, and [she] wanted to try and write a story that would explore some of those facets of the community." [2] At about this same time, Alli Sheldon started writing science fiction. She wrote four stories and sent them off to four different science fiction magazines. She did not want to publish under her real name, because of her CIA and academic ties, and she intended to use a new pseudonym for each group of stories until some sold. They started selling immediately, and only the first pseudonym—"Tiptree" from a jar of jelly, "James" because she felt editors would be more receptive to a male writer, and "Jr." for fun—was needed. (A second pseudonym, " Raccoona Sheldon," came along later, so she could have a female persona.) Looking for something fun as a family? Enjoy storytime with our free online books and videos, play games, win prizes, test your knowledge in our book-themed quizzes, or even learn how to draw some of your favourite characters.

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Okay, so you have a character in a setting, now for a very important bit - something has to happen! You need to give your character a dilemma or problem; something they need to over come or resolve; something that will make your story exciting. A. M. Dassu is the internationally acclaimed author of Boy, Everywhere, which was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, nominated for the Carnegie Medal, is the 2021 winner of The Little Rebels Award for Radical Fiction and is also an American Library Association Notable Book.Preview our Fall 2023 catalog, featuring more than 500 new books on art, photography, design, architecture, film, music and visual culture. Out of the Everywhere **** For me this is the strongest of the stories I hadn’t read previously, but is probably the 4th best story overall in the entire collection. There’s some incest and pedophilia, oh Tiptree, but it’s just a disturbing appetizer for the main course which is more about Earth being a pitstop and rehab facility for an interesting cosmic entity.

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Time-Sharing Angel *** Hamfisted story about overpopulation and a potential solution. Not sure the solution makes sense or works, but Tiptree throws out a lot of interesting tidbits to chew on and it definitely gets you thinking. Queer feminist science fiction meets photographic abstraction: Brittany Nelson’s chemically altered found photographs There are a lot of great stories in this collection, though my favorite is definitely "With Delicate Mad Hands." I can read it multiple times and cry at the end of each. I'm going to include a brief summary of each of the stories, both for myself and others. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2022-06-30 13:09:30 Associated-names O'Sullivan, Maggie, 1951- Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40586819 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

Further along in the essay, Perelman describes the collaborations he made with Kit Robinson and Steve Benson in 1976 in San Francisco. When the three met, one of them evidently read from whatever book was lying around the house (most often, not surprisingly for the late seventies, a book of poststructural theory), and the other two typed up what they heard; the "automatic listening" in question producing such lines as Perelman's "Instead of ant wort I saw brat guts" (32), which became the epigraph for Ron Silliman's landmark anthology In the American Tree (1986). The account of group improvisation is appealing, but it isn't clear to me what makes this and related dadaesque experiments all that unusual or important. And since, some twenty years after the fact, the "brat guts aesthetic," as Perelman himself calls it (34), seems to have made little impact on the larger poetry culture, the collaborative play here described may well be a peripheral aspect of the language movement. There are many rules you can follow to help you write, but the most important bit is using your unique imagination. As with a few other Tiptree collections, this one opens underwhelmingly, with a fine but one-note parable I'd expect of a lesser writer with fewer ideas to burn, then bare sketch of a scenario without the flesh to give it meaning. Oddly, these were stories Sheldon penned under her other, non-Tiptree pen-name, Raccoona Sheldon, which I'd always understood as her outlet for more directly angry feminist work. It's there a bit in the sad, gracefully spun dual reality of the third story, "Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light!" but then we reach the Racoona story for which she received a Nebula, "The Screwfly Solution". Oh, yes, this is where that reputation came from. It's excoriating, but also just utterly terrifying. You can think of comparisons, but they just feel soft by comparison. And as with all her best work, it's highly layered, never doing only one thing, however effective any of those single threads might be. Biological control interventions, psychosexual horror, gender and religion, several flavors of apocalypse in the wings. Perhaps grab another scrap of paper and invent a new character at this point - someone/something for your original character to conflict with or relate to. The Middle I recognised how similar their lives were to ours and how easily a war in our country could bring the same fate upon me. And in that moment, I decided I wanted to challenge the narrative that refugees choose to flee for a better lifestyle in Europe and instead show the reality of their lives; the choices they’re forced to make. How Boy, Everywhere came to life…