Rebel Satori Press

Dreams, desire, darkened streets and the sudden miracles that appear there, the deep places of the mind. Two groups made these the heart of a radical project of liberation: queers and surrealism.

Better than many others, queers understand the power of these dark areas. The rich, complicated culture we’ve created for ourselves is constantly ready to allow us to follow our dreams and fantasies, carried by the surging waves of sexuality into some pretty and magical places. It’s just as clear that the surrealists were chasing similar adventures as far back as the ‘Twenties and ‘Thirties. Given the similarity of their motivations, why have the two so often been in violent opposition to each other?

Madder Love is an anthology of cutting-edge writing that wants to look at that a little closer. It opens up the surreal possibilities of queer literature while simultaneously displacing the historic homophobia of Surrealism.

From dream states to erotic obsessions, from the muttering of the unconscious to parallel worlds (and the weirder cracks in this one) Madder Love tackles why surrealism can be so queer, and why being queer can be so surreal.

Contributions from Will Aitken, Stephen Beachy, Jeffery Beam, Stephen Boyer, Tom Cardamone, Sven Davisson, Peter Dubé, Craig L. Gidney, Nicholas Alexander Hayes, Trebor Healey, Kevin Killian, Shaun Levin and Rob Stephenson help make the case.

Peter Dubé is the author of the chapbook Vortex Faction Manifesto (Vortex Editions, 2001), the novel Hovering World (DC Books 2002) and At the Bottom of the Sky, a collection of linked short fiction (DC Books, 2007). In addition to writing fiction, he is a widely published cultural critic with essays on books and the visual arts appearing in journals such as CV Photo, ESSE and Spirale, and in exhibition publications for various galleries, among them SKOL, Mercer Union and the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery of Concordia University. Peter lives and works in Montreal.

Madder Love

Queer Men and the Precincts of Surrealism

Peter Dubé, Editor
ISBN 978-0-9790838-2-2, May 2008
Paperback, $14.95, 146 pages, 5.5 x 8.25.

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Ashé Arts Editor, Jason Kraley will be among the artists featured in an upcoming Philadelphia exhibition to benefit Calcutta House.

For the 3rd year in a row the Liberty Bears of Philadelphia are teaming up with cutting edge artists to celebrate life, art and raise money for local charity.

This year’s show will benefit the Calcutta House: “A special project of national significance and the only organization of our kind providing highly supportive housing and care to adult men and women with AIDS who have the least and need the most” which is located in center city Philadelphia.

So come celebrate life and art and see works from Rob Harmon, Angel Colon, Jonathan Blount, Ed Brosofske, Devon Palmer and Jason Kraley to help raise much needed money for the Calcutta House.

You can meet and mingle with the artists while enjoying cocktails and hors d’oeuvres on OPENING NIGHT, this thursday, April 17 from 7pm-10pm at the Bike Stop on the 3rd floor, 206 S. Quince St., Philadelphia.

Further viewing hours of this exhibition will continue April 18 and 19, 7pm-10pm.

$5 admission donation (will be donated to the Calcutta House).

The Saints and Sinners/New Orleans Literary Festival is just a month away… May 8-11.

Ashé editor and Rebel Satori publisher Sven Davisson will be among the presenters again this year. Other confirmed speakers include: Dorothy Allison, Mark Doty, Jewelle Gomez, Jim Grimsley, Aaron Hamburger, Stephen McCauley, Val McDermid, Tim Miller, Michelle Tea, and Elizabeth Whitney.

If you were ever looking for an excuse to visit New Orleans, this would be it!

For more information visit: www.sasfest.org