Bear Stories
Contributors: cover and design by Derek White
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Calamari Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780979808036
Subjects: Poetry
First sentence: We had not been here long before we realized that we enjoyed the stories of those who had been attacked by bears and lived to tell about it.
Description: Bear Stories is a series of investigations into the violences of erotic love, where violence is figured as a natural consequence of the body's vulnerability. These "stories" seek to describe, implore, and seduce their audience. But they are also the mind trying to come to terms with the paradoxes of desire, wherein the "domestic" habits of care of oneself and care of the other take on an unreal quality, constantly under threat from the natural world, just as the body is under threat, the mind is under threat, language is under threat. While the speaker enters the uncanny and haunted wilderness with the distance of a visitor, her desire and language swell into an embodiment of the "grid and viscera." 
(Publisher's description--see first link below)
Notes: Printed on recycled and acid-free Genesis Milkweed paper. Derek White's description and videos of making the chapbook may be seen at the second link below.