UDP Spring Studio Party: Macaisa Colgate, Nissan, Abramovich, Schluter, Ulmer, Rees
$ 5.00
UDP SPRING STUDIO PARTY
with readings by Rob Macaisa Colgate, Grace Nissan, Shira Abramovich, Kit Schluter, Spring Ulmer, Kaitlin Rees
Friday, May 2nd from 7–11pm
Ugly Duckling Presse
The Old American Can Factory
232 Third Street, #E303
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Celebrate six new titles with us at the UDP studio:
My Love Is Water by Rob Macaisa Colgate
At a house party with as many antipsychotics as party drugs, Danilo—bakla, schizophrenic, and heartbroken—is tracing the disintegration of a recent relationship. Dancing and stumbling with his Filipina nurse friends, Danilo traverses a Chicago apartment filled with gay ghosts and broken Tagalog.
The Utopians by Grace Nissan
Built around a sequence written entirely with language from Thomas More’s Utopia, The Utopians invents a new world, from the pieces of the old one, to formally explore the contradictions of liberation. A series of letters to Thomas More, and a poem called “THE WORLD” about Utopia’s vexed escape, encircle the remixed no-place as they elaborate Utopia’s double edge.
The Hand of the Hand by Laura Vazquez, translated by Shira Abramovich and Lénaïg Cariou, from Limited Connection Collective
The Hand of the Hand brings us to a future or an alternate universe in which earth, animal, and human intertwine—where stomachs have meadows, milk pours itself over trees, and flies wash the dead. By turns lyrical and absurd, this book explores the mystery and strangeness of what it means to be both speech and body, tongue and dirt.
By the time of his death at twenty-nine, bruno darío had already left a surprising and indelible mark on Mexican poetry with Lantana or, the indissoluble exhalation, a trilogy comprising the three full-length books he published in his lifetime. By turns sardonic and lyrical, scathing and irreverent, the hallucinatory sequence centers on the relationship of a young man (the Inconsolable) and an older woman who unexpectedly takes her own life (Lantana/Anfitriona).
Refreshments provided, but a bottle is always welcome!