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Dadaoism: An Anthology
| Author: | Quentin S. Crisp Justin Isis |
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Chômu Press, 2012 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Fantasy / Horror |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Weird (Horror) Weird (Fantasy) |
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Synopsis
Dadaoism is the first anthology from Chômu Press. Editors Justin Isis and Quentin S. Crisp have selected twenty-six novellas, short stories and poems setting out an aesthetic manifesto of rich and stimulating prose style, explosively unhindered imagination and anarchic experimentation.
In their submissions guidelines, they challenged would-be contributors as follows: "We aspire to edit and compile an anthology that will be the literary and psychic equivalent of a tour around the edges of a dying galaxy in a spectacularly malfunctioning space vehicle." Please "take your protein pills and put your helmet on"; this is not easy reading. Expect views of some fantastic literary nebulae, and encounters with word-form singularities.
From Reggie Oliver's 'Portrait of a Chair', in which consciousness is explored from the point of view of furniture, to John Cairns' 'Instance', a nano-second by nano-second account of a high-speed telepathic conversation, to Julie Sokolow's 'The Lobster Kaleidoscope' in which naïve wordplay acts as a foundation for existentialist philosophy in a story of inter-species love; from those such as Michael Cisco, with growing followings, to unexpected new voices such as Katherine Khorey, Dadaoism presents a mystery tour of the literary imagination to demonstrate that outside of exhausted mainstream realism and uninspired genre tropes, contemporary English-language writing is thriving and creatively vital.
Contents:
- 1 'Portrait of a Chair', by Reggie Oliver
- 2 'Autumn Jewel', by Katherine Khorey
- 3 'Visiting Maze', by Michael Cisco
- 4 'The Houses Among the Trees', by Colin Insole
- 5 'Affection 45′, by Brendan Connell
- 6 'M-Funk Vs. Tha Futuregions of Inverse Funkativity', by Justin Isis
- 7 'Spirit and Corpus', by Yarrow Paisley
- 8 'Timelines', by Nina Allan
- 9 'Jimmy Breaks up with His Imaginary Girlfriend', by Jimmy Grist
- 10 'Body Poem', by Peter Gilbert
- 11 'Testing Spark', by Daniel Mills
- 12 'Noises', by Joe Simpson Walker
- 13 'Romance, with Mice', by Sonia Orin Lyris
- 14 'Grief (The Autobiography of a Tarantula)', by Jesse Kennedy
- 15 'Orange Cuts', by Paul Jessup
- 16 'Instance', by John Cairns
- 17 'Kago Ai', by Ralph Doege
- 18 'Fighting Back', by Rhys Hughes
- 19 'Nowhere Room', by Kristine Ong Muslim
- 20 'Koda Kumi', a Justin Isis re-mix of 'Italiannetto' by Quentin S. Crisp
- 21 'The Lobster Kaleidoscope', by Julie Sokolow
- 22 'The Eaten Boy', by Nick Jackson
- 23 'Poppies', by Megan Lee Beals
- 24 'Abra Raven', by D.F. Lewis
- 25 'Pissing in Barbican Lake', by Jeremy Reed
- 26 'Rock 'n' Roll Suicides', by Jeremy Reed
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