Humans
- Mark DuCharme (author)
- Elæ Moss (artist)
ISBN
9781946031419LCCN
2018945769Page count
68Keywords
Script, Play, Theater, Theatre, Film, Filmmaking, Filmmaker, Poetry, Tragedy, Genre, Cross-Genre, Cross Genre, Chapbook, Tales, Society, History, ArchivePublication date
2018Language(s)
EnglishPublication media type
Print DocumentChapbook
Publication series
Unlimited EditionsWe, The Monstrous: Script for an Unrealizable Film
“In the tradition of the Theater of the Absurd, We, The Monstrous is a brilliant work of resistance that maps the paths that have brought us to the edge of the abyss. Mark DuCharme’s script for an ‘unrealizable film’ examines our fractured humanity, and offers us several possible futures. May we heed the oracle of art and choose wisely, for as this poem proves, everything matters.” — Brenda Coultas
What would happen if you woke to find the nightmare you’d been having was all too real? We, the Monstrous: Script for an Unrealizable Film explores the effects and consequences individual actions can have in a world gone wrong — a world very much resembling our own. The rise to power of a megalomaniac leader sparks hate and violence, threatening the common good — but what can our heroine do about it? Part absurdist theater, part classical tragedy, part satiric farce, part call to resistance, all poem, Mark DuCharme’s text complicates genre and formal distinctions even as it resists easy answers to modern problems with deep historical roots. This is poet’s theater for the age of discord.
About the Contributor(s)
Mark DuCharme is the author of more than a dozen books and chapbooks of poetry. Among the most recent are THE SENSORY CABINET (BlazeVOX Books, 2007), The Crowd Poems (Potato Clock Editions, 2007), INFINITY SUBSECTIONS (Meeting Eyes Bindery, 2004), Cosmopolitan Tremble (Pavement Saw, 2002) and Anon (cowritten with Anselm Hollo, Patrick Pritchett & Laura E. Wright, with illustrations by Jane Dalrymple-Hollo: Potato Clock Editions, 2001). His poetry and poetics essays have been appearing widely in print and online journals since the early 1990s.
DuCharme is a graduate of the University of Michigan and received his MFA degree from Naropa University. Winner of the Neodata Endowment Grant in Literature (Poetry) in 2006 and of a Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Poetry from Sun & Moon Press. He was a coordinator of the Left Hand Reading Series, the archives of which can be found on the University of Pennsylvania's PennSound website. He now curates the Stratford Park Reading Series. He has taught in Naropa University's renowned Summer Writing Program, and teaches at Front Range Community College. DuCharme lives and works in Boulder, Colorado.
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.
