BOOK TOUR: NYC LAUNCH JUNE 11th

June 6, 2015

Howl Happening
6 East 1st St, New York, New York 10003

Coffee House Press, Howl Happening, Some Serious Business, Creative Capital, and Bowery Poetry Club invite you to to celebrate the launch of Quintan Ana Wikswo‘s THE HOPE OF FLOATING HAS CARRIED US THIS FAR – a book of short stories and photographs on Coffee House Press.

Doors open at 6:00pm for a performance, special exhibition of Wikswo’s photography and video installations from the book, wine reception, and signing. A 7pm live performance will feature Quintan Ana Wikswo and composer/bassist Arthur Kell, with Wikswo’s video installations, original music by acclaimed new music composers Veronika Krausas, Arthur Kell, and Jason Francesco Heath, and narration by actress Amber Benson.

VIEW INVITATION HERE
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ABOUT THE HOPE OF FLOATING HAS CARRIED US THIS FAR 

Stories & Photographs by Quintan Ana Wikswo
Coffee House Press / June 2015

When love, lust, and longing have all but killed you, and Newtonian physics has become too painfully restrictive, is it possible to find freedom in another dimension? Have you lost the will to live, or have you lost the will to live as human? In these stories, characters must learn to live with unmarked edges and meanings that can no longer be defined.

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PRAISE FOR THE BOOK:

“You will find within these pages a marvelous alchemy of image and text, all of it radiant, sensual, endlessly layered. The Hope of Floating Has Carried Us this Far is at once a seduction and an insurrection: a paean to lovers, explorers, resisters, and those without borders.”—National Book Award finalist Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

“Quintan Ana Wikswo, in her unique and magnificent The Hope of Floating Has Carried Us This Far, has ignited a magnificent condensation of texts and images that culls together spirit, compassion, and dreams. Throughout her foray into extensions of the mind and the limits of the body she exudes an uncanny power of magic and wizardry.”— Lynn Hershman Leeson

“These stunning, solitary and cinematic letters to the self (think of the Quays and Béla Tarr speaking together in dreamtime) bear witness to a world beloved and betrayed, the spent and brutal collisions of irretrievable loss with what might have been possible.”—Rikki Ducornet

Quintan Ana Wikswo’s trenchant interdisciplinary investigation into the sites of massacres and other atrocities is a vivid reminder that art no longer serves religion, but is progressively supplanting it in terms of ritual and sanctity. —Thomas Micchelli, Hyperallergic

“[The Hope of Floating Has Carried Us This Far explores] humanity from the outside, not just crossing genres but exploding them. Quintan combines text and photography to give us characters who have left their bodies, and whose stories have become boundless. She writes with both a lightness and the weight of lives unlived, of remorse, and of loss.”—0s&1s

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PURCHASE THE HOPE OF FLOATING

http://coffeehousepress.org/shop/hope-of-floating-has-carried-us-this-far/

or on Amazon: http://amzn.to/1HcJIWQ

Or purchase a signed copy at the event

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THANKS TO PARTNERS:

Thanks to partners Coffee House Books, Howl! Happening, Some Serious Business, Creative Capital, Theo Westenberger Foundation, and Bowery Bowery Poetry Club.