Verbivoracious Festschrift Volume 4: Rikki Ducornet

Rikki Ducornet is a magical surrealist postmodern fabulist multi-talented artist and poet and author of several novels ripe with epicurean vocabulary vivid and outrageous imagery fantastically arcane trivia and erudition and Rabelaisian re-imaginings of history among them the Carteresque hellfire of The Stain the Lewis Carroll homage and wonder-of-wonders The Jade Cabinet and the beautiful slowly unfurling heart-attack Netsuke. Across her career spanning four decades Ducornet has pursued her inexhaustible obsession with Eros the violence of the Marquis de Sade and other monsters and the enchantment of the wunderkammern. The fourth VP festschrift including critical essays personal memoirs fiction homages and two in-depth interviews explores Ducornets passions and obsessions with particular attention to her novels illuminating the unforgettable work of a linguistically explosive author whose vocabulary sweats with a kind of lyrical heat (NY Times). CONTRIBUTORS: Forrest Aguirre Ricco Barbels Mary Caponegro Robert Coover Rikki Ducornet Tammy Dasti Michael J. Emmons Brian Evenson Allan Guttmann Randall Heath Lily Hoang Joanna Howard Laird Hunt Carolyn Kuebler Nadine Mainold Steven Moore Warren Motte Tod Rise Michelle Ryan-Sautour Eleni Sikelianos Raymond L. Williams and Igo Wodan.For those who know her Rikki Ducornets very name signifies enchantment and her works induce a state of rapture. -- Michael Silverblatt KCRW BookwormThe Complete Butchers Tales is one of my all-time favorite books but I love Rikki Ducornets entire body of work. This festschrift this wonderful book is above all a place to think about Rikki -- to shine a bright grateful light on her Vision. The contributors have done a miraculous job celebrating the work of an unspeakably beautiful significant artist thinker and friend. --Kate Bernheimer author of Horse Flower Bird