The Story of My Accident Is Ours

by Rachel Levitsky

Fiction. A product of over 15 years of writing, this multivalent new work both builds on and departs from Levitsky's previous efforts, as she traverses a host of contemporary theoretical discourses and concerns: transgendered bodies, social movements, pharmaceutical management of the emotions, and countless others. "The movement revolves around an accident, the exact nature of which is not disclosed. Despite the abstractions inherent in these constraints, I want the document to be accessible, engaging, addictive, and uncomfortable to hold, as in the instance of a suitcase with something vibrating inside." In this project, the formal poetics of expression confront fiction to create something utterly new.

Genres: Poetry, Fiction

112 pages, Paperback

First published April 2, 2013

Reviews

[Quinn Dougherty · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book updated me from deep dislike of poetry to mild ambivalence. But it isnt entirely poetry, it's also prose, somewhere in the middle. I found that I was regretting reading a borrowed copy, because I would have preferred to highlight certain sentences and keep them around. Instead I lost all of them.

[aurora giacobbe · Rating 5 out of 5]

glad i was given the opportunity to reread this because i have so much more appreciation for it now. in a way it expanded what i initially thought the book was. levitsky is the master of long sentences, of profoundness in ambiguity, and also of knowing when exactly to use imagery and how to make it the most effective. newfound love for this poetry.

[Jane Freiman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Spectacularly clear-sighted and devastating

[Carrie Lorig · Rating 4 out of 5]

it gathers steam. it gathers. i like that about it. gathering is one of my favorite things to do. i wish there had been a little bit more wilds. but the conceptual motion is tight and well accounted for and steady. also my body felt its dark wave deep down.

[Christine Gentile · Rating 4 out of 5]

Second read kinda changed me.

[Mills College Library]

811.6 L6665 2013