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A Compendium of Domestic Incidents
Fiction. A COMPENDIUM OF DOMESTIC INCIDENTS explores the notion of intimate space and the domestic affairs that constitute the proper subject of female knowledge. The prose pieces echo one another, but instead of creating one narrative they rather inhabit a shared terrain, the private realm where the playful, the erotic, the violent are compressed into a single gesture, something as quotidian as cutting the goose's neck for dinner. Through spells, visions, fragments, and tableaux, A COMPENDIUM OF DOMESTIC INCIDENTS creates a frightening map of women's wisdom. In these linked stories, two girls 'run, hatless, towards anything, a bridge, a public toilet, a street light, an iron chair'--and the sentences, matter-of-factly, towards the far reaches of the imagination: eerie, gruesome, funny, always delightful.--Rosmarie Waldrop.
Book Details
- Publisher: Noemi Press
- Publish Date: Sep 20th, 2011
- Pages: 51
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.30in - 5.30in - 0.10in - 0.15lb
- EAN: 9781934819173
- Categories: • General
About the Author
Ruocco, Joanna: - JOANNA RUOCCO earned an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University and a PhD in Fiction from the University of Denver. In addition to DAN (Dorothy, a publishing project, 2014), she's published several books: THE MOTHERING COVEN (Ellipsis Press), MAN'S COMPANIONS (Tarpaulin Sky Press), A COMPENDIUM OF DOMESTIC INCIDENTS (Noemi Press), and Another Governess / The Least Blacksmith: A Diptych (FC2). A COMPENDIUM OF DOMESTIC INCIDENTS won the 2009 Noemi Press Fiction Chapbook Contest (judged by Rikki Ducornet). Another Governess / The Least Blacksmith: A Diptych won the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize (judged by Ben Marcus). She also works pseudonymously as Alessandra Shahbaz (Ghazal in the Moonlight, Midnight Flame) and Toni Jones (No Secrets in Spandex). She co-edits Birkensnake, a fiction journal, with Brian Conn.