| Enter the Raccoon Contributor(s): Hausner, Beatriz (Author) |
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ISBN: 1927040388 ISBN-13: 9781927040386 Publisher: Book*hug Press OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Love & Erotica |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2012453466 |
| Series: Book Thug Tradebooks |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.9" W x 7.8" (0.20 lbs) 96 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Enter the Raccoon documents a love affair between a woman and a raccoon. They are a couple that loves without preconceptions, whose being together eschews all limits until their beliefs in the self are put to the test. Their story unfolds each time one surrenders to the other in a sometimes melancholic and cruel, other times joyful, even ecstatic embrace. It is a human-sized raccoon that greets you as you plunge into the subconscious wiring of Beatriz Hausner, accessed through this prosthetic book machine, this mechanical extremity that bids you to Enter the Raccoon. This is a book you will wish you could dream. Its cumulative prose lines extend through the essay, the anecdote, the fable, into the realm of fancy, fantasy, and fornicating (transpecies) wish fulfillment. It arrives at poetry and dives through that soft mirror to reveal the ancient machine working the illusion in the kingdom of happiness. This is the machine that knows you, and whispers things to you about your magic body that you can only imagine. It speaks of love as a thing made at the origin of language only to explode in radiant embrace. - Gregory Betts |
Contributor Bio(s): Hausner, Beatriz: - Beatriz Hausner started writing about Raccoon long before it was established that Toronto was host to the largest population of raccoons in the world. Hausner has written about other creatures also, mostly in verse, which she has published as poetry collections and chapbooks. When not writing or translating surrealist literature, she edits journals, publishes books for others and works full-time as a public librarian in Toronto. |