Someone Told Me

Written over the course of eight years Someone Told Me combines associative self-portraiture lyric essay literary criticism and memory-based work. The experimental prose toggles between descriptions of daily domestic life responses to art----e.g. Richard Linklaters Boyhood and Rebecca Solnits Men Explain Things To Me---and dreams of artists and the art they make e.g. Robert Walser LaToya Ruby Frazier and Anne Frank. Core themes include race gender heteronormativity loneliness shame gentrification attachment parenthood grief and traumatic birth.