"It's queer, surreal, and will probably blow your mind."
- The San Francisco Bay Guardian
- The San Francisco Bay Guardian
DREAM MEMOIRS OF A FABULIST
by Doug Rice
Limited Edition, $35
"Dream Memoirs is a beautiful book." - William T. Vollmann
"Dream Memoirs is the gold standard." - Laurie Weeks
"Doug Rice’s Dream Memoirs of a Fabulist reminds me of what a book used to be—something with aura that you hold in your hands and want to become. Because the narrative enters the realm of dream and fantasy, both in form and content, you are never reading the story of an “I” the way you are used to."
- Lidia Yuknavitch
In his first book in nearly ten years, Doug Rice moves against the silence of paper and dreams in a meditation on desire, a memoir told and untold somewhere between image and word. Undeveloped photographs. Bodies abandoned by reflections. Mirrors gone ecstatic with wanting.
Dream Memoirs of a Fabulist becomes memory for a time that never was. The book itself is book as exposure. Cover falls away, single sentences drip themselves across multiple pages, windows pull the gaze forward then back then down in a tactile interaction with reading. You find things here, literally, tucked between the pages. This book is for play. This is a book built for pleasure.
"This book is about exposure(s). About the amount of light falling on photographic film, or coming up through memory or words, in ways that will determine the amount of darkness or of brilliance, of obscurity or shine. It is about exposing the self to someone else, perhaps someone inside of you, perhaps someone you glimpsed once in the mirror. Doug’s words are always intimate, and always bring a raw or stung or visceral response. It takes a while to come back to yourself, sometimes, but when you do, you’re glad for where you’ve been."
- Rebecca Brown
"This is a book of disappearances: a touch moves like a cloud's shadow across a field of wheat. A girl, disappearing into that field, ripples and dissolves in light. Where it meets its negative, the flash flares a false brightness and the photograph records traces of her visitation.
"This is also a book of appearances: photographs which layer visitation with the real. The man abandons gender – that amputation and stillness – appears in women's clothes. The book turns its fantastical pages through a sequence of white frames... they gesture to she who shimmers before language – who has entered the pull of water, and its signature, the river."
- Camille Roy
"Doug Rice is a writer whose intelligence strives to be naked. He chooses to dredge the self, which rots and reflects, from the hollows of poetry’s bones. He is fucker and fucked, is the subject, object and act."
- Sensitive Skin Magazine
"Dream Memoirs is a beautiful and haunting book. I read it slowly. It demanded that I read it slowly--much slower than I normally read. I held it carefully. It demanded that I hold it carefully and with tenderness. The book works its way under the skin and lingers, much like the aftereffects of a dream, or of intoxication. And I think it made me understand your work in new ways, particularly the play with language and pronouns. The collaboration is brilliant. The way in which the photographs and text play off each other. The space you give the text, the way you open the text up by creating space for it to breathe. I let the text take me away, down the rabbit hole..." - Peter Grandbois
"[Doug Rice's work is] repugnant and revolting!" - Hon. John Ashcroft
DOUG RICE is the author of Between Appear and Disappear (forthcoming 2012), Skin Prayer: fragments of abject memory and Blood of Mugwump: A Tiresian Tale of Incest. He also was one of the co-editors for Federman: A to X-X-X-X. His work has been translated into French, German, Polish and Spanish. Kathy Acker selected Blood of Mugwump as the runner-up to the FC2 Best First Novel Award.
Read the reviews in HTMLGIANT, the Sacramento News & Review, Speak Without Interruption, Northwest Book Lovers, & Big Other.
Limited Edition
$35
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DOUG RICE and STEPHANIE SAUER have been named among the
"Sacramento region's top 25 up-and-coming creatives."
How To Put This Book Back In Its Cover
To get this custom cover to fit back over the exposed book, follow these simple steps:
Place the 'meat' of the book title-page-up on top of Prelude 2, then slip the Prelude 4 panel between pages three and four of the book. Wrap the rest of the cover around, like so.
To get this custom cover to fit back over the exposed book, follow these simple steps:
Place the 'meat' of the book title-page-up on top of Prelude 2, then slip the Prelude 4 panel between pages three and four of the book. Wrap the rest of the cover around, like so.