NO ONE TOLD ME I WAS GOING TO DISAPPEAR
a novel by J.A. TYLER and
JOHN DERMOT WOODS
ART: orginal images by John Dermot Woods
SOUND: original music by John Gallaher
FINE ART LIMITED EDITION: Fine art limited edition of 25 of each set: (1) The text is printed on low-grade recycled paper and contained in a recycled cardboard box whose cover hides a papier-mache mold of a human heart. The box is gift-wrapped in exquisitely rendered paper printed with the book’s images. The reader must destroy the art to read the words. (2) The images are printed on low-grade recycled paper and contained in a recycled cardboard box whose cover hides a papier-mache mold of a human heart. The box is gift-wrapped in exquisitely rendered paper printed with the book’s text. The reader must destroy the words to see the art. Choose.
EXCERPT
"This is a remembering and we only want to be gone. We never want to be chained. We are fed. We don't know what it is we, you and I, us, me and you we want. I don’t know what we want. You don’t know what we want, but I dreamt last night that we cut ourselves so deeply that rain poured out and the world flooded and we had the chance to be some kind of new absent.”
art from No One Told Me I Was Going To Disappear
J.A. TYLER is founding editor of the online quarterly MudLuscious and Mud Luscious Press, both venues for “aggressive / experimental writing.” Since its inception MudLuscious has been publishing authors known or becoming known for breaking with method and expectations about form, both on a narrative and sentence level.
JOHN DERMOT WOODS is the author of the novel, The Complete Collection of people, places & things. He writes stories and draws comics in Brooklyn, New York, and edits the arts quarterly, Action, Yes. He also organizes the online reading series, Apostrophe Cast and is a professor in the English Department at Nassau Community College on Long Island.