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Live Through This : : on Creativity and Self-Destruction

Chapadjiev, Sabrina (EDT) Book - 2008 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 5 out of 5

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Long, long thoughts / Carol Queen -- Lady Lazarus: uncoupleting suicide and poetry / Daphne Gottlieb -- Fighting fire with acid rain: a story on coming down / Cristy C. Road -- A little hell breaks loose / Patricia Smith -- Total disaster: sketching sanity / Fly -- Slash an' burn / Inga M. Muscio -- She's lost control again (or how alice learned to drive) / Nicole Blackman -- Double trouble in the love art lab: our breast cancer experiments / Elizabeth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle -- Friends as heroes / Silas Howard -- Rappin' my wounds / Toni Blackman -- The artful art of the role of art in the ugly art of survival / Diana DiMassa -- Weight watcher / Stephanie Howell -- Rewriting the script / Carolyn Gage -- Cello speak: exploring new languages for madness / Bonfire Madigan Shive -- No more crying / Bell Hooks -- Self-portraits / Nan Goldin -- Silent body, speaking body / Anonymous -- Art as prayer / Kate Bornstein -- Live through that?! / Eileen Myles.

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My favorite! submitted by evelyn on August 19, 2016, 11:32am I turn to this book whenever I am in need of inspiration, reassurance, or just a push in the right direction. I’ve given copies of this book to more friends than I can count and now I want you to read it!

Live Through This contains a group of essays, poems, cartoons, and photographs by a diverse pool of artists and thinkers including bell hooks, Patricia Smith, Eileen Myles, and Kate Bornstein. The pieces are mostly personal, and detail how the artists worked through difficult times in their lives. Creativity is both a helpful tool and a destructive impulse in the book, and the artists and writers don't hold anything back in detailing their experiences.

I have a hard time summing up how much I love this book, or listing all of the reasons that you should read it, but just believe me, you should! It will push you out of complacency, move you to work harder, and create, create, create. It will set you on fire.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Seven Stories Press, ©2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: 240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781583228272 (pbk.)
1583228276 (pbk.)

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Chapadjiev, Sabrina.

SUBJECTS
Self-destructive behavior.
Women artists -- Mental health.