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Guidebooks for the Dead
About This Book
In Guidebooks for the Dead, Cynthia Cruz returns to a familiar literary landscape in which a cast of extraordinary women struggle to create amidst violence, addiction and poverty. For Marguerite Duras, evoked here in a collage of poems, the process of renaming herself is a "Quiet death, " a renewal she envisions as vital to her evolution. In "Duras (The Flock), " she is "high priestess" to an imagined assemblage of women writers for whom the word is sustenance and weapon, "tiny pills or bullets, each one packed with memory, packed with a multitude of meaning." Joining them is the book's speaker, an "I" who steps forward to declare her rightful place among "these ladies with smeared lipstick and torn hosiery... this parade of wrong voices." Guidebooks for the Dead is both homage to these women and a manifesto for how to survive in a world that seeks to silence those who resist.
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CONTENTS
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Artaud
- Wedding (Berlin)
- Guidebooks for the Dead
- Duras (Poverty)
- Duras (Sickness)
- Duras (The Mute)
- Duras (Nothingness)
- Untitled
- Duras (The Dead)
- Guidebooks for the Dead
- Duras (The Word)
- Duras (The Mystic)
- The Porcelain Room
- In the Porcelain Room
- In the Porcelain Room
- In the Porcelain Room
- Guidebooks for the Dead
- Glamorine
- Guidebooks for the Dead
- Duras (The Mystic)
- Medicine and Magazines
- Guidebooks for the Dead
- Duras (The Flock)
- Duras (The Mystic)
- Duras (Poverty)
- Duras (The Word)
- Duras (The Word)
- Whiskey, Death, or The Book
- Little Parisian Cakes
- Dream Salve
- Guidebooks for the Dead
- Guidebooks for the Dead
- Guidebooks for the Dead
- Guidebooks for the Dead
- Guidebooks for the Dead
- Guidebooks for the Dead
- Duras (Nothingness)
- Duras (Nothingness)
- Duras (The Mute)
- Duras (On God and Booze)
- Flöh
- Magic
- The Siberian Wolf and Horse
- Diary of Magic
- Guidebooks for the Dead
- Greenpoint Morning
- Self Portrait in Porcelain Tub
- Charcoal
- Guidebooks for the Dead
- Analogue
- On the Train to Versailles
- On the Train to Versailles
- Guidebooks for the Dead
- Radioentfremdung
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author