The Wide Road review...

ROBIN ELIZABETH SAMPSON for WE WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE:

Every now and then, a book does more than just let me read it. It gets my attention from afar, beckons, then makes me wait. When it finally is with me, sometimes I just hold it, turning it over and over, thumbing through and just looking at it in wonder. Why measure desire?When I read, I savor, letting the words be not a grocery store check-out-rack candy bar, but a handmade truffle, sweet and bitter and luscious. A sensual and erotic experience. That’s The Wide Road by Carla Harryman and Lyn Hejinia. Read more...

TARPAULIN SKY reviews The Wide Road

TARPAULIN SKY

We're pretty sure that no one needs us to say "run out and buy this book." Newsflash: TSky gives thumbs up to the work of Harryman and Hejinian. So what we'd like to say instead is this: The Wide Road could have been printed on a thirty-dollar HP and bound with rubber bands and tape, and the text still would be great, but what makes this particular edition a joy to hold is the design by HR Hegnauer, incorporating cover art by Nancy Blum. With a 7"x8" trim size, 148 pages of creamy, heavyweight paper, generous 1.5" margins, and even pumpkin-colored endpapers!, this is the kind of book that reminds you why all is not lost for the medium. Seeing that it was printed under the guidelines of the Green Press Initiative just makes the feeling that much more snuggly. Kudos to Blum, Hegnauer, and Belladonna for a thoughtful and pleasing design befitting the work of Harryman and Hejinian. Brill, brill, and brill.

Akilah Oliver

(1961 – 2011)

We have just learned that our beloved friend, poet, teacher, performer, activist, mother, sister, Akilah Oliver passed away in her home in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn, N.Y. Akilah was a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative, one of our authors, and a dear dear friend.

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Review of Body of Words

Eva Yaa Asantewaa reviews Belladonna*s Body of Words event.

"Body of Work also put me in touch with the fact of my own hybridity as a writer in the world of dance, a writer whose understanding of the dance before me starts first in the body and the intuition, not the intellect."

Read the full review here.

February 16, 2011

Jaimy Gordon wins the National Book Award!

Jaimy Gordon, author of Belladonna chaplet #61: A Month of Love, wins the National Book Award for fiction.

THE WIDE ROAD is now available for pre-order

Long awaited by many since the early 1990’s, The Wide Roadis a master collaboration between two of our most necessary language innovators. Self- described as a “picaresque buddy being,” The Wide Road explores the simultaneity of thinking and communicating in present time. As such it is a mobile text, at once a constant and shifting travelogue, a celebration of the female body, an investigation into the intersections of female friendship, mothering, writing, community-making, activism and thought.

2011 • $16.00 • 148 pages • ISBN: 978-0-9823387-4-2

Now available to pre-order!

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