Reaching Out with No Hands: Reconsidering Yoko Ono
Lisa Carver s prose is the best kind: it reminds you of all the things you know but don t have the words for, and yet still feels completely new. This is a brave work unlike any other I have read.   Rachel Sherman, author of Living Room and The First Hurt --Rachel Sherman, author of Living Room and The First HurtMore than a biography, this book is a brilliant and marathon reckoning with Yoko Ono s work and its impact across generations. Assessing Ono s prolific career on its own terms, Carver reaches deep into the culture itself and our bone-deep aversion to paradox, freedom, and change. As Carver observes, Yoko is like LSD. Except an acid trip lasts maybe twelve hours. Yoko goes on and on. Reading Lisa Carver is always one of the greatest pleasures. She s brilliant of course, but more important, she never stops seeking and telling the truth.   Chris Kraus, author of Aliens and Anorexia, I Love Dick, Torpor, Where Art Belongs, and Summer of Hate --Chris Kraus, author of Aliens and Anorexia, I Love Dick, Torpor, Where Art Belongs, and Summer of HateLisa Carver can reveal surprising depths in Duran Duran lyrics, so imagine what she can do with a subject as rich as Yoko Ono. This book is a searching, brave, weird, great, historically broad, and highly personal interpretation of one of the most confounding artists of the last sixty years.   Zoe Zolbrod, author of Currency and contributor to The Rumpus and The Nervous Breakdown --Zoe Zolbrod, author of Currency and contributor to The Rumpus and The Nervous Breakdown