The Fifth Wound
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A baroque work of intimate myth exploring one woman's interdimensional search for beauty and embodiment, through kaleidoscopic renderings of hospital corridors, brutal breakups, and passionate romance.
The Fifth Wound is a phantasmagorical roman à clef about passion as a way of life. In one dimension, this is a love story?Aurora & Ezekiel?a separation and a reunion. In another, we witness a tale of multiple traumatic encounters with transphobic violence. And on yet another plane, a story of ecstatic visionary experience swirls, shatters, and sparkles. Featuring time travel, medieval nuns, knifings, and t4t romance, The Fifth Wound indulges the blur between fantasy and reality. Its winding sentences open like portals, inviting the reader into the intimacy of embodiment?both its pain and its pleasures.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Book One: Ezekiel was Here
- I. To the Tune of Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush
- II. To the Tune of Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way by Waylon Jennings
- III. To the Tune of Me Tuning My Guitar
- IV. This Very Instant
- V. Mount Sinai
- Book Two: From Nought to Nought - In Unsubstantial Trade -
- I. A Second Chance at Nothing Much
- II. Angels Dancing on the Tip of a Pin
- III. Gay Space Voyage
- IV. The Sixth Wound
- V. Doll Parts
- Book Three: No Lonesome Tune
- I. Poet Laureates of Scorpio Season
- II. Now You Be Emmylou and I'll be Gram
- III. To the Tune of Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye
- IV. The Woman's Face on the Other Side of This Pane-Paper or Fate?
- V. Written in Light, in Either Case
- VI. Becoming Horse Girls
- End
- Appendices
- Appendix I. An Attempt At Englishen
- Appendix II. Florilegium, or: Anthology of Euphonic Code
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Nightboat Books
