Cartoonist Michael DeForge and Poet/Musician Sadie Dupuis (Speedy Ortiz)
Schedule
Thu Oct 13 2022 at 06:30 pm
Location
Orbit Room | Bloomington, IN
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Sadie Dupuis & Michael DeForge: Reading, Conversation & SigningSadie Dupuis is the guitarist, songwriter & singer of rock band Speedy Ortiz, as well as the producer & multi-instrumentalist behind pop project Sad13. Sadie heads the record label Wax Nine, edits its poetry journal, and has written for outlets including Spin, Nylon, and Tape Op. She holds an MFA in poetry from UMass Amherst, where she also taught writing. Mouthguard, her first book, was published in 2018 (Gramma, Black Ocean); Cry Perfume is her second collection. She is an organizer with the Union of Musicians & Allied Workers and its local UMAW Philly.
"Cry Perfume is a bouquet of delights, especially rich in the moments where a reader can be a joyful audience to the way Sadie Dupuis makes language malleable, playful, bends it towards the hidden sounds tucked within. This is a book of immense pleasure, and I am so thankful for it."
Lyrical poems that engage with grief and loss and the toll of overdose and addiction with an activist bent. The title of Cry Perfume is an imperative to bottle sorrow in a beautiful vessel and shed the chemicals that cloud your sight. Written over a four-year period on tour and after losing loved ones and peers to overdose, Dupuis funneled complicated grief into harm reduction advocacy, working to fundraise for and distribute overdose prevention resources in venues internationally.
The slick performativity of pop, punk humor, electronic glitch and sampling, and the surprising leaps of improvisation influence these poems, but beyond music, these poems are informed by Dupuis's larger concerns about justice and organizing. Cry Perfume is a hopeful but realistic inventory of the virtues and evils that emerge when arts and tech collide. Those dualities are cloaked in the same sparkling fragrance, and there are twinned pleasures and regrets in parting the smokescreen.
- Hanif Abdurraqib, author of A Little Devil in America, A Fortune for Your Disaster
Michael DeForge is a cartoonist, an illustrator, and a community organizer who lives in Toronto, Ontario.
A new release from Michael DeForge should be met with trumpet blasts across the length and breadth of the book world. NY Times
Another DeForge classic—tender, depressing, and overflowing with his mind-melting, uber-satisfying surrealist style. - Interview Magazine
Birds roam freely around the Moon complete with fruitful trees, sophisticated fungal networks, and an enviable socialist order. The universal worm feeds all, there are no weekends, and economics is as fantastical a study as unicorn psychology. No concept of money or wealth plagues the thoughts of these free-minded birds. Instead, there are angsty teens who form bands to show off their best bird and other youngsters who yearn to become clothing designers even though clothes are only necessary during war. (The truly honorable professions for most birds are historian and/or librarian.) These birds are free to crush on hot pelicans and live their best lives until a crash-landed human from Earth threatens to change everything.
Michael DeForge’s post-apocalyptic reality brings together the author’s deadpan humor, surrealist imagination, and undeniable socio- insight. Appearing originally as a webcomic, Birds of Maine follows DeForge’s prolific trajectory of astounding graphic novels that reimagine and question the world as we know it. His latest comic captures the optimistic glow of utopian imagination with a late-capitalism sting of irony.]
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