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Peggy Munson's Interests
General
Magical realism, brain-twisting poetry, disability activism and access, the end of injurious chemical culture, Ordinary Mind Zen School, green building
Music
Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash, Hole/Coutney Love, Cat Power, Liz Phair, Sleater-Kinney, Belly, Throwing Muses, The White Stripes, Beth Orton, Marnie Stern, The Trucks, Alison Kraus, Bob Dylan, Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter, Elvis Costello, Sufjan Stevens, PJ Harvey, Mindy Smith, J Tillman
Movies
Me and You and Everyone We Know, Antonia's Line, The Door in the Floor, Mysterious Skin, The Sweet Hereafter, The Straight Story, Smoke Signals, Grizzly Man, Oleanna, House of Games
Books
The Dogs and The Terrible Girls by Rebecca Brown, Cruddy by Lynda Barry, anything by Eileen Myles, Joy Harjo, Song by Brigitt Peegan Kelly, HIV, Mon Amour by Tory Dent, Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison, Mark Doty, Pablo Neruda, Cesar Vallejo, Charlotte Joko Beck
Writer, activist, Sagittarius spitfire, exiled Midwesterner, and organic mattress afficianado. http://www.peggymunson.com. My first novel, Lambda award finalist Origami Striptease, was released not long ago, and my first book of poetry, Pathogenesis, is now in print!
"Peggy Munson’s Pathogenesis is forthright and magical in its scope. The minute ascends to the monumental—moth to God; very little escapes the sharp, perceptive eye of this thoughtful poet. A sober music gives shape to the insistent pulse of this book, and each poem dovetails to highlight the collection’s overall vision. Every trope is a probe that divines vicissitude." - Pulitzer-prize winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa My publications include:
Origami Striptease
"Reading Origami Striptease by Peggy Munson reminded me of the first time I read Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body. Like then, I wanted to read passages of Origami to everyone. Munson is a kick-ass novelist to watch out for." - Read the Books to Watch Out For review
"A seductive, often raunchy fantasy of the disarming effects of love and trouble." - Curve Magazine
"Munson deftly experiments with gender, linguistics, and style." - Read the Bay Area Reporter review.
“Vividly poetic. I couldn't resist lying around my apartment all day, consuming every last bit of language that Munson laid out on the page.” – Chill Magazine
"This book reads like poetry and left me stunned with writer’s envy." - Read the Erotica Revealed review
"Munson is a stylist extraordinaire and the story she tells here will leave you wide-eyed, spent, unnerved." -Rebecca Brown
"A powerful, even mythic, tale of love and transformation."
-Patrick Califia
"This is sleezily insidious writing. . . .It's a good, dirty book." - Eileen Myles
Thank you. People and doctors are going to have to hear it. Everyone I talk to lately knows someone who has it and had organs attacked or something bad. Too many still undiagnosed for too long and not adiquetly treated.
You're so hot and political I love it! Just saying hi.
Book reading July 24th at Modern Times Bookstore 7pm Current mood: excited Category: Writing and Poetry
How are you doing?
We, at Sins Invalid, are excited about the book party & reading that will happen on Thursday July 24th 7pm at Modern Times in SF. We want to get a good crowd out so please spread the word through your contacts. Below is a blurb that is going on and in local weekly newspapers and on websites.
Modern Times Bookstore and Sins Invalid invite you to a book release party/reading of "Telling Stories to Change the World: Global Voices on the Power of Narrative to Build Community & Make Social Justice Claims." In this compelling Routledge collection, grassroots projects use storytelling as a way of exploring what a more just society might look like. Join the artists of Sins Invalid and the organizers of Justice Now and Kindred on Thursday, July 24th 2008 at 7:00pm at Modern Times Bookstore, 888 Valencia Street at 20th St in the Mission District of San Francisco. Readers include Leroy F. Moore, Patty Berne, Maria Palacios, Cara Page and Vanessa Huang
hello, Peggy... I send you salutations all the way from San Francisco. Hope all is well. And the Airstream doesn't need polishing. I skinned my knee the other day. But I was having fun when it happened. And it's kind of heart shaped. So, maybe there's hope for this old girl yet. I also have absolutely no idea why i felt you needed to know that. tee hee...okay, i'll be quiet. ahimsa, kendra
Hurrah, Peggy, for in this new photo you appear to be ready to run a marathon with speed this world finds uncommon! Brilliant look/image... and I buy into it. Best wishes, Red
that sounds like either a bad sign or a bad shaman. wtf. i just got back from my america whirlwind, so now i'm ready to buckle down and put all those quack shamans back in their places.
Why, of course. And we will use submarines for transportation (although I don't know about towing an Airstream with a submarine). But it shall be attempted.
Oh goodness, Peggy, on that steel hoss you look like the best of the Colorado honky tonk angels... like some beauty out of a gritty film Steve McQueen would have been in if they could've cast you. Write well! Best wishes, Red
so good to hear from you. having a bit of a hard time lately myself -- got hit with the stomach flu a few weeks ago and i'm still crawling my way out of it. made the lyme, etc worse, of course. argh. but i'm holding on. how are your treatments going? i'm thinking of you, as always. muchmuch love, and hugs too.
