Hall of Waters is an attempt to demythologize the rural American Midwest through the specific example of the author’s hometown, Excelsior Springs, MO. Through lyric essay & memoir, the book seeks to examine & undercut the inherent settler white supremacy of the Midwestern small-town, to deromanticize the nostalgia for land & place that is the hallmark of Midwestern art, & to think about what it was like growing up queer & trans in such a toxic environment.
Humans
- Camellia-Berry Grass (author)
- Elæ Moss (artist)
ISBN
978-1-946031-54-9Page count
80Keywords
Poetry, Prose, Lyric, Essay, Lyric Essay, Memoir, Art, Photography, Document, Documents, Archive, Midwest, West, America, United States, US, USA, Missouri, Place, Queer, Trans, Transgender, Gender, LGBT, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, Homophobia, TransphobiaPublication date
2019Language(s)
EnglishPublication media type
Print DocumentPublication series
Kin(d)* Texts & ProjectsHall Of Waters
About the Contributor(s)
Camellia-Berry Grass (pronouns: they/them or she/her) is originally from rural Missouri, got their MFA in Tuscaloosa, and now lives & teaches writing in Philadelphia. They are the author of Hall of Waters (The Operating System, 2019). Their essays and poems appear in DIAGRAM, Waxwing, The Normal School, Barrelhouse, The Texas Review, BOAAT, Bedfellows, Phoebe, The Wanderer, and Sonora Review, among other publications, most of which appear under the name Berry Grass. They are a 2019 nominee for the Krause Essay Prize. Their chapbook, Collector's Item, was published in 2014 by Corgi Snorkel Press. They host Tragic: the Gathering — an occasional transgender literature reading series in Philadelphia. They have previously served as Nonfiction Editor of Black Warrior Review, and Sundog Lit. Follow @theCBgrass on Twitter, @camelliagrass on Instagram.
Elæ Moss is a multimodal artist-researcher, curator, designer, and educator. Seeking Speculative Solidarities, they employ analog and digital media to investigate human, institutional and ecological systems and to iterate open source strategies for ecological and social change. Recent projects have shown at La Mama Galleria, EFA Project Space, STWST/Ars Electronica, Usdan Gallery, Judson Church, the Segal Center, SOHO20, Dixon Place, and the Exponential Festival, among others. Select publications include Big Echo, Tagvverk, Vestiges, Matters of Feminist Practice, The Transgender Narratives Anthology, Choice Words: Writers on Abortion, The Brooklyn Poets Anthology, and Resist Much, Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance. Books include Ground, Blood Altas, Overview Effect, Sweet and Low: Indefinite Singular, Bodies of Work, and The Precarity Bodyhacking Work-Book and Guide. Moss is a Professor at Pratt Institute, and the developer / founder of the Operating System + Liminal Lab. More at: https://onlywhatican.net and https://theoperatingsystem.org.
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