.informed.deformed.reformed.

In 1986 my daughter died the day she was born. From her I became a writer.

My writing is informed, deformed, and reformed by these things:

1.I think gender and sexuality are territories of possibility. Nevermind what weve been told or what the choices appear to be. Inside artistic practice the possibilities open back up.
2.I think narrative is quantum.
3.I think the writer is a locus through which intensities pass.
4.I think literature is that which fights back against the oppressive scripts of socialization and good citizenship.
5.I think the space of making art is freedom of being.
6.I think things that happen to us are true. Writing is a whole other body.
7.I believe in art the way other people believe in god.

 

Lidia Yuknavitch

Un Alma Cercana