Aim at the Centaur Stealing Your Wife
December 2015
Aim at the Centaur Stealing Your Wife
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"Exciting and incredibly compelling...it swept me away."
— Matthew Rohrer
About the Book
In the United States and Europe in the early twenty-first century, a person of mixed ethnicity finds herself questing inside old European art and ideas. Terrible as these things often are, she enjoys recalibrating them, and she is optimistic.
Author
Praise
Jennifer Nelson's Aim At The Centaur Stealing Your Wife is an exciting and incredibly compelling mix of art history, video games, shape-shifting and counterhacking China. Nelson's thinking is twisty and generous and it is a pleasure to watch her make Breugel and Occupy Wall Street meet each other and make perfect sense. Or make sonnets using Billy Idol as a jumping off point. But underneath all of this is the book's true pleasure--Nelson's smart, hilarious, omnivorous voice. It swept me away.
— Matthew Rohrer
In the News
Excerpt
in paradise one cannot read Kafka
I have never read Kafka
the super-virginal color is blue
you must believe
all women and brown folk
on the inside are blue
and the poem will give you a brown vagina
and this blue room
let’s all be alone in the same blue room
at the same time
let’s close our eyes
let’s choose the afterimage
a puddle yes
no one cleans in paradise
Details
Distribution: Asterism Books
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