Happy Belated V Day from me to you and also to me

Ai

Dodie Bellamy from Low Culture

me on Valentine’s Day 2015 with a pre-frosted heart, ripe for devouring 

Kathy Acker from Empire of the Senseless 

Helene Cixous from The Love of the Wolf

are there any texts or films you would recommend exploring the theme of women’s desire?

Luce Irigaray—This Sex Which is Not One

Luce Irigaray—”When Our Lips Speak Together”

Carolyn Knapp–APPETITES: Why Women Want

Jade Sharma–Problems 

Chris Kraus—I Love Dick 

Anne Carson–”The Glass Essay”

Maggie Nelson—Bluets

Katherine Angel—Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell

Kate Chopin—The Awakening 

Helene Cixous–The Laugh of the Medusa 

Anne Carson—Decreation

Charlotte Shane—”When Desire Goes Dark”

Jess Zimmerman—”Hunger Makes Me”

Kathy Acker–”-Desire: A Play in Two Parts”

Kathy Acker—Blood and Guts in High School 

Dodie Bellamy–Cunt-Ups

Dodie Bellamy–The Letters of Mina Harker

Karen Volkman—Spar

Lucie Brock-Broido—Master Letters

Maurice Pialat—A Nos Amours 

Dodie Bellamy, The Letters of Mina Harker

– as I sit on the floor in a slinky pink dressing gown your soft syllables gliding off the receiver, the phone becomes my body I feel utterly … grainy. I pull back my pink brocade collar to reveal a pale neck that smells of coffee lavender and funk. A pulse as elusive as you. Hint of freckled shoulder softened daily with calendula and honey. I want to live in a cheap hotel with cigarette burns in my clothing.