Educated, signified, and oppressed, the body has ways of asserting itself. There is knowledge in the body, a language grave, alien, and suspect. MUTATIONS is a collection of stories in which the body transforms the will of the hero.
The Magic Flower is a symbolist sequence collecting scraps of language from imagination and history. The sonnets circle around anxieties about connection, value, and loss-as both body and mind grapple with transformation, disease, and fecundity. This book dwells in the tension between the poet and his subject matter, by calling into question the mutual transformation wrought by each party on the other: how does living in and processing in words a world that is insistently separate from the self shape the subjectivity of the poet?
Collection of museum quality collages and artwork. Beautifully curated, photographed and arranged. Printed on heavy, glossy paper. The artwork in this book takes you between two worlds: the one of obvious appearances and the elusive one beneath that, a maze of flux and association that fills perception with mystery.
Two cents admits you to the underworld, a borderland of myth, sex, & logic. Meet yourself through the mercury of language. Lose yourself in a comedy of adulterous skeletons, twins disappearing in walls, and magic rites colliding with the modern world.
“This book is worth devouring. It's a dreamscape that combines hints of innocent fears, fantasy, and impeccable imagery. Kirshman shows us how he is able to bob and weave through the realities of day-to-day life in order to find his freedom. I walked away inspired.” —Ryan Torres, author Poem, and Other Four-Letter Words
There's magic in the monstrous. Something strange leaks through the hyper-conscious language and distorted artifice of these sci-fi tales. Through the cracks slip "the gelatinous body of Captain Aldair," the "stubs that were once his legs," and "burning nubs where his arms had been." Monstrosity is a self-reflexive text, art holding a mirror to itself, revealing the illusion of cohesion. The body, like art, is an appearance merely, capable at any moment of dissolution.
Arthur Z. woke before the alarm, pursued by a series of bothering dreams. He was a teen in English class with a kid punching him in the ribs. Arthur gasped for air. The rupture of sleep robbed him of any sense of having rested. Yet knowledge lay within the dream—some key to his general predicament. What was coming next...?
With its movement from place to place, moment to moment, image to compelling image partaking of the quicksilver logic of the unconscious, Interpretation of Dreams confronts us at once with the emotional necessity and the intellectual impossibility of interpretation.
Enter a world where brain waves are reality—where life and language collide in an arena of signs. The mind of a refracted protagonist, Radio Tales is a triptych construction: a sci-fi dystopia, a coming of age tale, and a journey into mental illness.