#bruce boone

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“My hunger holds no interest for me. Rather than eat, my desire is to be eaten. Love eats my living bones, and the only release is quick death.”

Guilty by Georges Bataille, translated by Bruce Boone

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Storytelling thus becomes performative—'You want what you write to actually cause these things to come to exist, you don't want just to describe them,' Boone writes—an aesthetic act capable of mapping and transforming its own conditions of possibility. The writing doesn't only aim to express the voice of an already existing community, but also to call a potential community into being, one in which we, readers, are invited to participate.

Rob Halpern, preface to Century of Clouds by Bruce Boone

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Bruce Boone

WALLPAPER

2019

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Twice a month, SPD recommends 20 new titles we just can't keep our hands/eyes off. But there are so many older gems that still make us feel the love, so we're swinging the light back each month to ten books that continue to rock our world. Maybe they'll rock yours too...Thus we bring you our first installment of SPD Recommends *Backlist*:

1. The Thorn - David Larsen

"It's an obsessive, super intelligent, highly promising work, and an often beautiful one." -Publishers Weekly

2. The Essence Of Reparations - Amiri Baraka

From the publisher: "THE ESSENCE OF REPARATIONS is Baraka's first collection of four daring essays looking at reparations for African-Americans, for the crimes of slavery, linking reparations to greater political, economic and social development, and the writer's ideas about democratic transformation in the USA."

3. Black Life - Dorothea Lasky

"Her poems are so good they make me gasp." - Robert Dewhurst

4. My Walk With Bob - Bruce Boone

Dennis Cooper calls it "a seminal and perfect work," and for Camille Roy it is "a founding document, and the brilliant record of an opening in writing."

5. Story Of The Eye - Georges Bataille

"a dirty book by an unhappy Frenchman." - John Wray

6. gowanus atropolis - Julian Talamantez Brolaski

"Julian's deviance is a hazard of poems which bend the muscle of light." - CAConrad

7. ALICE WALKER BANNED - Alice Walker

"In response to outrage from Christian conservatives, the California State Board of Education (BOE) removed in 1994 two short stories by Alice Walker from its California Learning Assessment System (CLAS) exam, which was adopted to allow children of all backgrounds a 'level playing field.' One of the stories, "Roselily," an interior monologue of a poor, Mississippi girl (an unwed mother) as she is being married and taken away to Chicago like chattel, was deemed 'anti-religious.' The other story, "Am I Blue?," is an allegory of slavery told by a narrator observing the treatment of a horse; the story's ending holds emotional associations of eating animal products with cruelty and was thus marked 'anti-meat-eating.'" -Library Journal Review

8. Drunkard Boxing - Linh Dinh

"The poems of DRUNKARD BOXING growl, astound, chill. 26 of some of the most stunning and stirring short poems I have read to date, bending form to illustrate conflict in perfectly imprecise confrontational language. Foremost, however, it is clear that the poems in DRUNKARD BOXING possess what I felt I had otherwise been missing: subject matter that is interesting, revelatory, and difficult."-Patrick Herron

9. HANNAH WEINER'S OPEN HOUSE - Hannah Weiner

"HANNAH WEINER'S OPEN HOUSE beckons us into a realm of poetry that bends consciousness in order to open the doors of perception." -  Charles Bernstein

10. Elements - Robert Glück

"Bob's fiction is actually quite friendly yet he cuts it with a knife. Bob's gift to the history of letters I think is the uncanniness of his flow. He pulls down the page like a shade, it's masterful what he does. His page is more filled with light than words, really. More filled with temperature too." —Eileen Myles

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I would make images of people in my stories so they would have the pleasure of seeing themselves. With every person named, life would be tangled in the text. I wanted people to feel they had a stake in this writing and credit it and affirm it and give it a community and social life it could only have if many people saw their representations there, not just one person. Not just myself—since I could now tell about others. Politeness, pleasure, related to people's responses to what you had written. Your text could not begin until people were able to start loving and hating you on account of it. Finally I wanted a text so tangled up with others that it would be their intentions, and not mine, that gave it such place as it would have in a large social history.

Bruce Boone, Century of Clouds

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But now the conversation took an eccentric turn. What … we asked ourselves with the morbid zest of schoolmen or Talmudic scholars, do you do exactly when you can't really have a Christian funeral any more or a bourgeois one? The question referred back to our subject in this way. We meant—how can you have ceremonies at all anymore, though indeed how can you not? Who could imagine a 'Marxist' funeral?—we wondered. And don't the trappings of power and terror remain exactly that, occasions of expediency and vehicles for domination?—though still, when you get down to basics, the necessary arrangements of our day, indispensable to the transition times of history. Omnis caro ad te veniat! As the saints used to exclaim, in the disconcertingly naïve hope that nothing is ever lost finally. We didn't go so far as to say, A toast to death! but we were nostalgic for the victories of abstract thought and the ways that ceremony pays tribute to that thought. These were my own real feelings. That I can assure you. And perhaps they were David's too.

Bruce Boone, Century of Clouds

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bruce boone - my walk with bob (1979)

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bruce boone - my walk with bob (1979)