Guide to the kevin killian and dodie bellamy papers. The bookstore, onsite and online, welcomes the printed endeavours of contemporary artists, thinkers, writers, musicians, poets, and other art workers. The letters of mina harker and sam dallesandro, in which the letters of mina alternated with those written by sam, this book is solely composed of letters written by mina harker. Jul 29, 2014 her methods include radical feminist revisions of canonical works, as in cuntups 2002 and its followup cunt norton 20, which appropriate the cutup technique made famous by william burroughs. Mixes real diaristic writings with imagined diaries, blurs all literary. Dodie bellamy is the author of feminine hijinx hanuman, 1990, real. Hard press, po box 184, west stockbridge, ma 01266. The letters of mina harker and sam dallesandro by dodie bellamy and sam dallesdandro is a sister act of possession, charting the relationship between the spirits taking force over the bodies and sex lives of dodie and sam throughout the 1980s. He studied at the university of california, santa cruz, and came to san francisco as a young man in the early 1980s and published a book of elegant lyrics, slippery sins. Bellamys language exists, as gaston bachelard an important french philosopher of the first half of the twentieth century says, the beinghere is maintained by a being from elsewhere.
Pink steam rises from the vats of melting goo in the vincent price 3d horror classic, house of wax. The ultimate vamplist, featuring fiction, nonfiction, movie. Collected stories of sam dallesandro by sam dallesandro, kevin killian editor online at alibris. The letters of mina harker and sam dallesandro 1994 isbn 9781 883689179. After 8 books is an independent bookstore and publisher based in paris. Real contains letters between dodie bellamy mina harker and sam dallesandro. Sam dallesandros focused, vivid writing is the stuff of legend. Out of print, but copies are available at small press distribution. The vampire mina harker, who possesses the body of author dodie bellamy, confesses.
Her previous books include cunt norton, the cuntups, the letters of mina harker, tv sutras, academonia, pink steam, real. Talisman house, 1994, and killians research on jack spicer for my vocabulary did this to me. Dodie bellamy is a novelist, nonfiction author, journalist and editor, known for her nontraditional use of sexuality, politics, and narrative experimentation. Her book cuntups won the 2002 firecracker alternative book award. Dodie bellamy is the author of the collection pink steam. She has also written a novel, the letters of mina harker university of wisconsin press, 2004 and an epistolary collaboration on aids with sam dallesandro, real talisman house, 1994. When the sick rule the world the limbs of the well will be chopped off in the middle of the night, the well one still alive, flailing and screaming. Dodie bellamy and sam dallesandro talisman house, publishers. Dodie bellamy is an american novelist, nonfiction author, journalist and editor. The letters of mina harker and sam dallesandro talisman 1994 w and bob harrison. Mutual need and equal risk by nicole rudick poetry foundation. Kevin killian and dodie bellamy papers archives at yale. The wild creatures explores a strange terrain of urban legend, the power of sexual obsession, and the thin line where the toocool becomes the toohot.
A correspondence between mina of the letters of mina harker and writer sam dallesandro. Its not what this book says that matters, so much as what it does. Real contains letters between dodie bellamy mina harker and sam d allesandro. As with other stuff ive seen from dodie, a mix of beauty and vulgarity and sometimes a surprising combo of both at once. The letters of mina harker by dodie bellamy goodreads. A gay man, 1 dallesandro died of aids in 1988, aged 31, leaving behind a body of work that ranges across various genre identities, from stories of one paragraph to fully developed novellas. The bookstore, onsite and online, welcomes the printed endeavours of contemporary. The letters of mina harker and sam dallesandro with sam dallesandro talisman 1994. Her work is frequently associated with that of dennis cooper, kathy acker, and eileen myles.
She lives in san francisco where shes the director of. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Research files document bellamys research on sam dallesandro for real. Her letter to sam dallesandro in the letters to mina harker is about a writer and friend of bellamys who died of aids in 1988. These latter pieces were originally delivered as lectures, then combined under the title barf manifesto and issued as a chapbook by ugly duckling presse in 2008. A correspondence between mina of the letters of mina harker and writer sam d allesandro. This book was the only one of his that saw in print in his life time.
Dodie bellamys novel, the letters of mina harker, is such a performative text. The letters of mina harker and sam dallesandro, his correspondence with writer dodie bellamy, and the wild creatures. Collected stories of sam d allesandro by sam d allesandro, kevin killian editor online at alibris. Dodie bellamy s books include feminine hijinx hanuman, 1990, real with sam d allesandro, talisman house, 1995, and the letters of mina harker hard press, 1998. The letters of mina harker and sam dallesandro is drawn from her muchcelebrated project of sending letters to fellow writers under the guise of. Dodie bellamys own dear gaileffusively citational, frankly sexual, and slyly confessionalis a case in point. This excerpt from her epistolary letters of mina harker perhaps best represents that slippery new narrative i. The letters of mina harker is a dishy fictionalized memoir from sf literary illuminary dodie bellamy. The letters of mina harker and sam dallesandro hoboken, n. Her book cuntups won the 2002 firecracker alternative book award bellamy is one of the originators in the new narrative literary movement of the early and mid 1980s, which attempts to use the tools of experimental.
The letters of mina harker and sam dallesandro talisman house, 1995, and the letters of mina harker forthcoming hard press, 1997, as well as two chapbooks, answer leave books, 1992 and broken english meow, 1996. Bellamy has written feminine hijinx, answer, and, with the late sam dallesandro, real. She has written a novel, the letters of mina harker hard press, 1998, a collection of memoirs, feminine hijinx hanuman, 1990, an epistolary collaboration on aids with the late sam dallesandro, real talisman house, 1994, and three smaller books, answer leave books, 1993, broken english meow, 1996, and hallucinations meow, 1997. On one level, the letters of mina harker seems to be about certain events in dodie bellamys life. The letters of mina harker and sam dallesandro talisman, 1994, the letters of mina harker hard press, 1998. The collected stories of sam dallesandro, a fuller and reedited collection of. Sam dallesandro born richard anderson april 3, 1956 february 3, 1988 was an american writer and poet. And it movingly memorializes sam d allesandro, her close friend, now dead of aids. Mother montage entirely comprises passages excerpted from the letters of mina harker, pink steam, and academonia, plus excerpts from the essays mla barf and cca barf. The letters of mina harker and sam dallesandro after 8. The letters of mina harker and sam dallesandro 11 copies.
The letters of mina harker, and an epistolary collaboration on aids with the late sam d. They met only a couple years after spurt takes place. If there was a remarkable before and after, the likeliest to have intimate knowledge of the process would be kevins widow, dodie bellamy, author of such breakthrough works as cuntups, the letters of mina harker, and when the sick rule the world. Dodie bellamy s books include feminine hijinx hanuman, 1990, real with sam d allesandro, talisman house, 1995, and the letters of mina harker hard. When the sick rule the world the well will be servants, and all the well will try to become sick so they too can have servants. An interview with dodie bellamy julia bloch lodestar.
Discover book depositorys huge selection of dodie bellamy books online. Dirty love letters between bellamy and sam dallesandro comprise half the book. The letters of mina harker and sam dallesandro 1994 isbn 1883689171 broken english 1996 isbn 9997735889 the letters of mina harker 2004 isbn 0299206742. Jan 02, 2005 sucking the juices from san francisco. Bellamys books of prose, poetry, and essays include feminine hijinx hanuman books, 1990, real. Dodie bellamy has had text with sam dallesandro and made with him a book opening to send a language for the experience of a community real or imagined, is there a difference. The letters of mina harker and sam dallesandro epub. Discover book depositorys huge selection of talisman house publishers books online.
With bellamy he began an epistolary collaboration she was later to publish as real. Her methods include radical feminist revisions of canonical works, as in cuntups 2002 and its followup cunt norton 20, which appropriate the cutup technique made famous by william burroughs. The letters of mina harker and sam dallesandro by dodie bellamy and sam dallesandro. Behm, mark the ice maiden zomba books 1982 bellamy, dodie real. Dodie bellamy cca wattis institute for contemporary arts. Many of the letters were previously published in various anthologies and literary journals, some collected in real.