Dirty: Dirty

by Greg Bachar, Elizabeth Burns, Jennifer Calkins

One artist and 54 writers accepted the challenge of creatively defining "dirty" in the 21st Century. Mugi Takei's delicate, profane watercolors position the human body within, on and against nature. While some writers surrendered to play through sexually explicit love poetry, bawdy fiction, threesomes, twosomes, onesomes, and all the delightful fantasies and realities in-between, others suggested genocide to be the real dirt of humanity, or offer sexy, new versions of biblical stories. As an anthology, Dirty : Dirty exhibits the beauty, humor, raunch and invention possible when talented artists and writers tackle a very old subject.

Edited by Debra Di Blasi.

Art by Mugi Takei.

132 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2013

Reviews

[c.vance c.vance · Rating 4 out of 5]

Call me clueless, but never before did I know that men had vagina-envy....
A compilation of people that should be read with images that are disturbingly beautiful in their narrative.

[Eric · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent collection of great writing. I especially enjoyed the pieces by Jacqueline Heffron, Theresa O'Donnell, Alyssa Wisener, and Lidia Yuknavitch. Well worth a read!

[Melanie Page · Rating 5 out of 5]

The first time I went through this collection, I read pieces here and there. I discovered, though, that reading from beginning to end really made the collection as a whole develop a voice. I especially liked The Turtle by Aimee Parkinson.