Research Catalog

Title

Neighbor / Rachel Levitsky.

Author

Levitsky, Rachel D.

Publication

• Brooklyn, New York : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020.
• Berkeley, California : SPD/Small Press Distribution ; London : Inpress Books ; Toronto, Ontario : Coach House Books
• Saline, Michigan : McNaughton & Gunn
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ugly Duckling Presse, publisher.
• McNaughton & Gunn (Firm), printer.

Description

109 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"Neighbor's mutable, shifty narrator alternately reifies and attempts to refuse the constricting, separating, culture-load bearing wall between lovers and neighbors. As antagonisms and intimacies converge, Levitsky troubles the divisions within urban space, and between spatial and ethical frames: 'I live on a street where / people turn (on) each other / into a theory.' This second edition, printed a decade after Neighbor's original publication, features an expanded version of the play, 'Perfect California: A Family Affair.'"--Publisher's website, viewed July 15, 2021.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• American poetry > 21st century
• Lesbians > Poetry
• Lesbians
• American poetry
• Sexual minorities
• LGBTQ+ people

Genre/Form

• Poetry.
• Poems – 21st century.
• Lesbian poetry.
• LGBTQ+ poetry.

Note

• First edition: 2009.
• "Typesetting by GoodUropian. Text set in Bembo, with titles in Avenir and News Gothic. Cover art by Carey Maxon. Cover design and additional typesetting by Paige Parsons. Printed and bound in the USA by McNaughton & Gunn. Covers printed offset at Prestige Printing."--Colophon.

Contents

Prologue (catastrophe, utopia) -- I. My neighbor, or agora -- II. Imago -- III. Perfect California: a family affair -- IV. The desire of the writer.

Call Number

JX 23-929

ISBN

• 9781946433381
• 1946433381

OCLC

1129803345

Author

Levitsky, Rachel D., author.

Title

Neighbor / Rachel Levitsky.

Publisher

Brooklyn, New York : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020.

Distributor

Berkeley, California : SPD/Small Press Distribution ; London : Inpress Books ; Toronto, Ontario : Coach House Books

Manufacturer

Saline, Michigan : McNaughton & Gunn

Copyright Date

©2020

Edition

Second Edition, 2020.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Biography

"Rachel Levitsky came out as a Lesbian in 1984 and as a poet in 1994. In between those two events, she wrote fact sheets and polemic for street actions demonstrating for LGBT and Women's Liberation, Women's Health, and against the state negligence of the AIDS epidemic. Since becoming a poet, she's published three book length collections, Under the Sun (Futurepoem, 2003), NEIGHBOR (UDP, 2009) and the poetic novella, The Story of My Accident is Ours (Futurepoem, 2013). Levitsky is the author of nine chapbooks, most recently, Hopefully, The Island, part of an ongoing collaboration with the artist Susan Bee. One of her current writing projects, titled "Existing Condition," is a 'memoir without memory' indirectly addressing the ruptures of refugeeism as second generation post-Holocaust Jew. Adjunct and intersecting with her writing practice, Levitsky builds and participates in a variety of publishing, collaboration and pedagogical/performative activities. In 1999, she founded Belladonna* which is now Belladonna* Collaborative, a matrix of literary action promoting the writers and writing of the contemporary feminist avant-garde. She's written and performed in a number of poetry plays. In 2014, she performed the role of Andy Warhol in Maxe Crandal's Together Men Make Paradigms. In 2010, she co-founded the Office of Recuperative Strategies, an operation that staged workshops, walks, instant performances and instant publications during happenings in a variety of urban sites, including Alexanderplatz and the Gowanus Canal. In 2017, she was a fellow of LMCC Process Spaces, an open studio project on Governors Island and in 2009 she was Fellow in Poetics and Poetic Practice at University of Pennsylvania's Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing. She is a Professor of Writing at Pratt Institute, and teaches irregularly at Naropa Summer Writing Program, The Poetry Project, Poets House and other situations as they arise."--Publisher's website, viewed July 15, 2021.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Place of Publication

United States New York Brooklyn.

Added Author

Ugly Duckling Presse, publisher.

McNaughton & Gunn (Firm), printer.

Research Call Number

JX 23-929