Bücher von Sue William Silverman

In Crayon Colors for Serial Killers, Silverman has constructed something akin to a potion bag-a collection of juju text to keep the forces of darkness at bay-sometimes by lament, but more often by turning the dark archetype of male violence against women on its head. These subversive haikus and flash prose pieces are literary grenades. And, just as importantly, they exist in the realm of myth and collective imagery. While specific events-both political and personal-may have triggered some of these pieces, Silverman is writing more broadly. When a transformation comes that gives women their due-sexually, politically, and socially-this collection might go out of fashion. But, until then, this is writing that fights its way toward that outcome one little textual explosion at a time.

Suitable for people who want to take possession of their lives by putting their experiences down on paper - or in a Web site or e-book, this title helps writers navigate a range of issues from craft to ethics to marketing. It is an atlas that contains maps to the remarkable places in each person's life that have yet to be explored.

You are The Girl, and The Girl is a Badass.From the opening lines, it's clear The Girl at the center of these poems is damaged-which is another way to say she's a survivor. If the Girl Never Learns moves from the personal to the mythic to the apocalyptic, because The Girl would do anything, even go to hell, to save her soul. So, she resists, takes action to overturn society's suffocating ideal of Good Girldom. The poems' sense of breathlessness reflects The Girl's absolute need to control her own destiny, to outrun her past, while at the same time chasing a future she alone has envisioned and embodied. Because The Girl is, above all else, a badass.

A deeply personal story of a woman's addiction to and recovery from the high of dangerous encounters. But the misguided search that became Silverman's life has resonance for those with other addictions, whether to food, drugs, alcohol, or work.