Live Through This

Name: Live Through This
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ISBN: 9781609804367

On Creativity and Self-Destruction

Sabrina Chapadjiev, Sabrina Chap

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English

Seven Stories Press,U.S.
15 August 2012

Sociology & anthropology

A visceral look at the bizarre entanglement of destructive and creative forces,Live Through Thisis a collectionof original stories, essays, artwork, and photography. It explores the use of art to survive abuse, incest,madness and depression, and the often deep-seated impulse toward self-destruction including cutting, eatingdisorders, and addiction. Here, some of our most compelling cartoonists, novelists, poets, dancers,playwrights, and burlesque performers traverse the pains and passions that can both motivate and destroywomen artists, and mark a path for survival. Taken together, these artful reflections offer an honest andhopeful journey through a woman's silent rage, through the power inherent in struggles with destruction, andthe ensuing possibilities of transforming that burning force into the external release of art.

With contributions by Nan Goldin, bell hooks, Patricia Smith, Cristy C. Road, Carol Queen, Annie Sprinkle,Elizabeth Stephens, Carolyn Gage, Eileen Myles, Fly, Diane DiMassa, Bonfire Madigan Shive, Inga Muscio,Kate Bornstein, Toni Blackman, Nicole Blackman, Silas Howard, Daphne Gottleib, and Stephanie Howell.

Edited by: Sabrina Chapadjiev, Sabrina Chap
Imprint: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 204mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 359g
ISBN: 9781609804367
ISBN 10: 1609804368
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 15 August 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Live Through This Edited by Sabrina Chap ISBN:978-1-60980-436-7 Foreword Amanda Palmer Preface Sabrina Chap 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 Diane 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 Creating Your Own World Swoon 2 pm Margaret Cho Artist Resource List Resources Acknowledgments

SABRINA CHAPADJIEV is a playwright, spoken word artist, andsinger-songwriter originally from the suburbs of Chicago. She is founder of theall-woman songwriter series Chicks that Kick, and editor of the zine Cliterature- 18Interviews with Women Writers. Her plays, including perhaps merely quiet, havebeen produced in the United States and Europe.

Reviews for Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction

The 21 artists, who share their stories of madness, trauma, addiction, abuse and self-destruction, and their relationship to art, leave no vulnerable detail unwritten. -Shameless The [contributors to] Live Through This testify to lives of survival-turning tears and tendencies toward mania, depression, and self-mutilation into powerful lessons. -Curve Magazine Captivating, concise, and humbling, Live Through This is easy to put down between pieces and become just as immersed upon picking it up again. -Feminist Review The essays and visuals that make up Live Through This plum the depths of out-of-control lives, examining how self-destruction functions as both a hindrance and a productive challenge. -Bitch Magazine