Results for "Guess, Carol"

“While marriage may be taking no prisoners in this collection, it’s clear that the union of Darling and Guess was a perfect one.  They produced a stunning, vivid, and emotionally visceral feminist rumination.  They take tremendous formal risks in the construction of this book, and all thos... Read More about X Marks the Dress: A Registry

"My father hovers in the aperture of a glistening window, suicide botched by his mother's ghost. Numbers from his slide rule pause on the sill, fallen by chance into a brilliant formula." This interlinked collection of lyric essays documents Carol Guess's relationship to her father, a brilliant scie... Read More about My Father in Water

Central to Sleep Tight Satellite is the theme of queer chosen family. This positive form of connection contrasts with violent pseudo-communities formed by policing, government control, and technological surveillance. Characters struggle to survive the pandemic, but their survival skills were honed l... Read More about Sleep Tight Satellite: Stories

Fiction. LGBT Studies. The voice narrating Carol Guess's newest book is that of a playfully effusive but meticulous cataloguer of our darker inquiries and oddities, a suburban former dancer with the inner life and vision of an epic librettist. DARLING ENDANGERED is nothing short of exceptional, a ra... Read More about Darling Endangered

Carol Guess' third book of poetry surveys the aftermath of a relationship and the geography of loss. Humor ebbs in amidst this poet's observance of the personal and the nation's upheaval.... Read More about Love Is A Map I Must Not Set On Fire

Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Microchips that don't know when to stop, pop culture clones poised to take over the planet, a mysterious burial in a popular park, candy cigarettes wreathed in sugary ash. In these interlocked short stories, Elizabeth J. Colen and Carol Guess conjure characters guided by in... Read More about True Ash