{"id":29518,"date":"2020-04-20T03:36:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T03:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/?p=29518"},"modified":"2020-04-20T03:36:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T03:36:40","slug":"good-stock-strange-blood-by-martin-dawn-lundy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/good-stock-strange-blood-by-martin-dawn-lundy\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Stock Strange Blood by Martin Dawn Lundy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Good Stock Strange Blood<\/em><\/h2>\n

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From Good Stock Strange Blood: And, yet, each morning a fireheart grief in the body coming out of sleep. The listening to the smoke as if fills and weeps inside the chest, choking strength out hands weighted, dangling. We wonder where else it lives before it fills the body up. We assume it comes inside through the hole that promises invasion. Lundy Martin is author of A Gathering of Matter \/ A Matter of Gathering and DISCIPLINE, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Lambda Literary Award’<\/p>\n

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“What this book wants, writes Dawn Lundy Martin, is to know \u0091the distance between the “I” and the “you.”‘ And to try to know this distance we are taken through the catastrophe of what it means to have a body: a body that is assigned its identity, a body that is assigned its history, a body in constant resistance to that which we are called and to that which we call ourselves, and to that which we understand about ourselves, and to that which we have no words for. I read Good Stock Strange Blood and then I read it again immediately because I needed to relive the relentless and beautiful pressure placed on every word, every page, every silence. A relentless pressure placed on the body that is fetishized, shackled, split, strangled, beaten, hated, compressed, trashed, drowned, measured, mirrored, dragged, discarded, disappeared, opened, punctured, displayed, encased. The question of \u0091what allows the body to survive’ is at the heart of Good Stock Strange Blood, and it has been at the heart of Lundy Martin’s previous books as well (Discipline, Life in a Box is a Pretty Life). But if there’s a continuation of interrogations, then it must also be said that in Good Stock Strange Blood there is a more mesmerizing intensity. And if there’s an answer in this book to the question of what allows a body to survive, then perhaps it has to do with how we confront and give words and breath and sound and silence to a life of meticulously drawn images that are ghostly, brutal, and vivifying.” –Daniel Borzutzky<\/p><\/div>\n

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