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Utility Location
Utility Location is a multimedia micro memoir, pairing tiny prose-poems with the author’s cell phone snapshots of unrelated street markings. It is a book about being jumbled, out of place, in search of signs. It is about the pull toward darkness and also light, and the many people we become, across a lifetime.
Susan was struck by the spray-painted utility location markings that appeared throughout her Southern, suburban subdivision around the time of the 2016 election, a time of upheaval in her personal life, too. She went on to take pictures of other messages, on other streets, unconcerned with their meanings. The pictures offered abstract inspiration, a way into her own story.
The result is a tough, shorthand, diaristic, imprecise, and contemplative review of a life so far. It is feminist, of course. It gets a little political.
Susan Rukeyser now writes and reads in Joshua Tree, California. She wrote the novel Not On Fire, Only Dying (Twisted Road Publications), and the flash fiction collections Swap/Meet (Space Cowboy Books) and Whatever Feels Like Home (above/ground press). Her short fiction and creative nonfiction appear in many wonderful places, online and in print. Susan published 35 contributors in Feckless Cunt: A Feminist Anthology and hosts the Desert Split Open Mic, Joshua Tree’s feminist, queer, and otherwise radical spoken word open mic.
Susan was struck by the spray-painted utility location markings that appeared throughout her Southern, suburban subdivision around the time of the 2016 election, a time of upheaval in her personal life, too. She went on to take pictures of other messages, on other streets, unconcerned with their meanings. The pictures offered abstract inspiration, a way into her own story.
The result is a tough, shorthand, diaristic, imprecise, and contemplative review of a life so far. It is feminist, of course. It gets a little political.
Susan Rukeyser now writes and reads in Joshua Tree, California. She wrote the novel Not On Fire, Only Dying (Twisted Road Publications), and the flash fiction collections Swap/Meet (Space Cowboy Books) and Whatever Feels Like Home (above/ground press). Her short fiction and creative nonfiction appear in many wonderful places, online and in print. Susan published 35 contributors in Feckless Cunt: A Feminist Anthology and hosts the Desert Split Open Mic, Joshua Tree’s feminist, queer, and otherwise radical spoken word open mic.
24 pages, Paperback
Published December 20, 2022
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Susan Rukeyser
11 books25 followersSusan Rukeyser writes and lives in Joshua Tree, California. Her new novel, The Worst Kind of Girl, is from Red Light Lit Press. She created the Desert Split Open to amplify literary work that is feminist, queer, and otherwise radical. As World Split Open Press, she publishes select feminist titles. She is the author of one previous novel, Not On Fire, Only Dying (Twisted Road Publications). Her short work appears in many wonderful places, online and in print, and is collected most recently in Utility Location (Bottlecap Press) and Whatever Feels Like Home (above/ground press). www.susanrukeyser.com
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