In a world of dismaying and oppressive absolutes, James Pate traces the political urgency of the Gothic in Flowers Among the Carrion: âThere is nothing escapist about dreams: instead, they are a currency in our waking world, with their own explosive economies.â Our Carrion Flowers Winter Sale offers three explosively dreaming titles. Valerie Hsuingâs efg: a trilogy is radiantly centrifugal, an acute and total pushback against the forces of ânaturacideâ and extinguishment. French Moroccan writer Farid Taliâs Prosopopoeia (trans. Aditi Machado) trains its illicitly sensuous attention on multiple illicit bodies: the corpse of a brother who has died of AIDS, the immigrantâs body, the Muslim body, the queer body. Together, efg and Prosopopoeia form a virtual system where would-be opposites overlap and coincide: ecstatic and dismayed, ornate and buoyant, grief-stricken and turned-on. Such impossible states are well-described in the essays of Pateâs book. In the interest of sharing these three important works as widely as possible, this sale includes all three books, a $42 value, for $25. (Only for a limited time.)
