Eunuchs
By: Michael Thomas Taren
Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Brooklyn, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 35
Description: "The eunuch in Michael Thomas Taren's eunuchs is the singer, the troubadour hallucinating the next one thousand and one nights. Pastoralizing the abject, this figure of the servant cleaves to an "aggressive sentience" and despite his enforced deformation achieves a freedom beyond the procreative masterstory. In Hellenic times, the eunuch was he whose flesh was shed so he may bring the bull to sacrifice through Pluto’s Gates. What does this servant know? What does he tell us about the doors of mirage and perception, about the artifice of reality?"--Publisher's website (viewed 11/06/2015).
Notes: Poems.

Edition of 500.

"Michael Thomas Taren is a carpenter's wife who likes gardening. He is author of Eunuchs (UDP, 2015) and is editor and cotranslator, with Tomaz Salamun, of Justice, forthcoming from Black Ocean. His cotranslation with Purdey Lord Kreiden of L'Ile Atlantique by Tony Duvert is forthcoming from Semiotext(e). They are currently translating En Ménage by Joris-Karl Huysmans (Wakefield Press, forthcoming)."--Publisher's website (viewed 11/06/2015).

As issued, sewn in illustrated printed cream paper; in prefab case, 28 cm.
Table of contents: title: Slovenia --; title: Lied --; title: Ovum --; title: Quadrugon --; title: The diaries --; title: A valley --; title: After Antinous --; title: Mutants --; title: Mutants --; title: Poem --; title: Poem --; title: Poem --; title: The pearl --; title: My progeny --; title: Canopy --; title: Poem --; title: The lawns --; title: Luka --; title: Penumbra --; title: Poem --; title: Myth --; title: Lord --; title: Poem --; title: The dwarf swims --; title: A tremor across the tops of pines.