GAUDY SORROW - Seyda, Barbara
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Barbara Seyda's GAUDY SORROW is a surreal, epistolary memoir about her Basque friend who died of Covid on Christmas Eve. A rant elegy swerving like a euphoric requiem, over 200 short, blunt letters catapult us into an epic odyssey. Rowdy and transcendent, we zig zag through tightly-braided random moments, street slang, Shakespeare, Spanglish and over-wrought metaphors. This queer Covid narrative spews sexy rage and body parts like a swamp monster of grief - a hydra sprouting infinite heads from fresh wounds for the beloved. A female-centric opera and hybrid text, GAUDY SORROW flickers like a dead lightbulb, dazzling and bereft.…mehr

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Barbara Seyda's GAUDY SORROW is a surreal, epistolary memoir about her Basque friend who died of Covid on Christmas Eve. A rant elegy swerving like a euphoric requiem, over 200 short, blunt letters catapult us into an epic odyssey. Rowdy and transcendent, we zig zag through tightly-braided random moments, street slang, Shakespeare, Spanglish and over-wrought metaphors. This queer Covid narrative spews sexy rage and body parts like a swamp monster of grief - a hydra sprouting infinite heads from fresh wounds for the beloved. A female-centric opera and hybrid text, GAUDY SORROW flickers like a dead lightbulb, dazzling and bereft.
Autorenporträt
Barbara Seyda is a queer, Polish-American playwright and screenwriter. Her published books are Women in Love (Bulfinch/Little Brown) winner of a Lambda Literary Award, Nomads of a Desert City (University of Arizona Press) and Celia, A Slave (Yale University Press) winner of the Yale Drama Prize. Seyda lives in Tucson, on the Sonoran Desert home of the Tohono O'odham people.