Vivienne

"PRAISE FOR VIVIENNE Stylish, satirical, and inventive, contemporary yet timeless, Vivienne takes place where urgent and unanswerable questions reside, at the intersections of art, love, and the immortal soul. It is surprising, mysterious, and delightful at every turn of the page, an utterly singular story circling the life and legacy of a fascinating and larger-than-life figure."" --Sarah Gerard, author of True Love ""In an instant, one of our finest poets has become one of our finest novelists. Emmalea Russo is--as Leonard Cohen sang--'All dressed to kill, in rags of light.'""--Bruce Wagner author of Dead Stars Russo's characters are vivid, alive, post-alive, carnivorous and weird: they contaminate and elevate. Vivienne is a powerful, ambiguous and magical novel that is both a work of art and a serious reflection on the risk of creation itself.""--Nina Power, author of What Do Men Want? and Senior Editor of Compact Magazine ""Vivienne is a novel of rare vivacity and invention in a literary period not noted for visionary fictions: a vital recreation of the sheer scandal of our surreally real lives, a poet's novel in the sense in which all novels worth the name should be poets' novels: a work of poiesis, the inspired formation or manifestation of a new reality.""--John Pistelli, author of Major Arcana ""A combustible alchemy of rare beauty and force. Russo's lyrical prose crackles with vitality, and her story about an artist's response to philistine attacks against her body of work is a triumph of literary courage and innovation.""--Bernard Schweizer, author of Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism PRAISE FOR EMMALEA RUSSO ""It has a messy epicurean sensibility which should appeal to art terrorists and ad hoc gangsters. A street credibility. It is my favorite volume of poetry written in the last however many years. . .""--Manuel Marrero on Confetti ""Russo chronicles a desire for calm and unattachment in the face of the details of a life--a volatile relationship, the labor of gardening, a 'Nervous disorder' . . . Readers will likely find the primary pleasures of this book in this tension, as philosophy emerges from fracture and the poems gesture toward but never perform wholeness.""--Publishers Weekly on G ""Moving seamlessly from the finely researched to the experiential, Wave Archive is precisely that, an accumulation of wave upon wave of Emmalea Russo's thinking, being and responding through her researches upon and experiences around epilepsy.""--Rob McLennan on Wave Archive"