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I'm From Nowhere follows Claire as she mourns the sudden death of
her husband. She has no child, no job, no agency. She
confronts a dying planet and an emerging sense of self. She puts
herself in the hands of men--some of her oldest friends--who may
have come to save her, a contemporary Penelope with a raft of
suitors and unspent erotic capital. Is it possible for a woman to
reclaim her life and set its terms without succumbing to suicide or
submission? At once intimate and sprawling, this book is an
examination of the stories we are told--and the stories we tell
ourselves--about identity, permanence, and meaning in our
beautiful, hostile world.
Between these covers you will find haunting unconventional
narratives that push the boundaries of genre & form in poetry,
fiction & essays. This is our first transmission. Welcome
to Black Telephone Magazine.
Radically imaginative and intense, challenging language to be slow
and fast, soft and hard, drunk and sober, What Are You performs its
own destruction and recreation.  Hypnotic, dreamlike,
lyrical essays tell the story of a woman trapped in a destructive
love affair with the universe. Her understanding of power, desire,
and complicity must be transformed again and again. Addressed to an
amorphous you, Lerman wrestles with the forces of birth and death,
creation and destruction—going deep into the subterranean strata
of consciousness and back. EXCERPT“You exist in an endless series
of iterations. You keep spinning out and out and out. Sometimes you
take the form of a person and people, but you don’t stop there.
You are the places where people go to enact every hidden, silent
fantasy—the cruelty and the beauty too—and you are the
fantasies themselves, and the economies that shape and regulate
them. In my dreams I never fly, but I do breathe underwater.”
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