Mike Corrao

You are holding a living organism. Gut Text feels fear, pain, and desire. Within, you will follow four distinct personas as they form on the page, each seeking to transcend the limitations of their existence as they speak to you directly. In his newest release, Mike Corrao has created a challenging and unsettling exploration of identity, and the ways we see it manifest in the physical world. Each persona carries with it a similar desire, but a different means of striving towards it. Slowly, the text begins to move, begins to change, correct its mistakes, and adjust to its restrictive ontology. Gut Text is not only alive, it is growing and learning. Witness the text creating itself, a parthenogenetic conception.

Gut Text

Mike Kleine

Tatiana Ryckman

Gary Shipley

Christina Tudor-Sideri

Garett Strickland

Rosie Snajdr

Arielle Tipa

Grant Maierhofer

A. S. Coomer

Germán Sierra

Candice Wuehle

Benjamin DeVos

James Nulick

David Leo Rice

Evan Isoline

James Tadd Adcox

Sean Kilpatrick

B. R. Yeager

Elisa Taber

Mónica Belevan

Judson Hamilton

Joshua Rothes

Ryan Napier

Joshua Young

Nathan Dragon

Andrew Wilt

Garett Dennert

Ali Raz

Vincent James Perrone

Kenny Mooney

Tyler Crumrine

Adam Tedesco

Jake Reber

A collectively written novel composed of 34 unique voices from the expanded field.

Collected Voices in the Expanded Field

"Fully exploiting the Gogolesque conceit of a cephalophore whose body and head go their own separate ways, Cephalonegativity reads like Beckett's Play (with M reprised as an even more slippery version of himself) or Not I as if performed by the secret society of Acéphale. Archaic turns of phrase and elision combine with post-cinematic headlessness to produce a stage play that plays with stages and stages play, a lesescenario from the velveteen tongue of an heretical zealot, its phrases as if slurped up off an abattoir floor, or off the rotted walls of a theatre-cum-poisoned-amniotic-sac where the performers have all become kuroko. Read out loud, at speed, in honour of its progenitors, the words turn into "chunks of hot pomegranate meat" in your mouth-turned-anus, with your gills agape, your mutinous soma exsanguinated, levitating above you, your head on fire singing like litel clergeon from the catacombs." -​Gary J. Shipley, author of 30 Fake Beheadings "In pursuing a theatrical treatment of the Self's head and body and self-selves, through a Bataillean notion of headlessness, through typographical humor and rupture, through a Dada-esque document of volatile mirror-pages and chorus, Cephalonegativity makes of itself a gaping gesture: a neck-stub that is a mouth that is singing out and commenting on the ritual of being present. The reader dials in via "a rotary anus" and watches a body hanging as a tail in its coprolalic spooky plastic underwater gloom psychedelia cum outer space inside of a mouth cum cult orgy. "DO/ YOU SEE THE END OF TIME? THE APPROACHING/ WALL? WHEN THE THEATRICAL BECOMES THE/ APOCALYPTIC? ENACTING A DISTORTED REALI-/ TY AS THIN LAYERS OVER THIS ONE?" This text is a porous fabric through which we might perform the wound of the stage as we watch it rot." -​Olivia Cronk, author of Womonster﻿

On the Theater of Decapitation

Cephalonegativity

A 72 act play of Erotics of Jazz and Vomit

Smut-Maker

In Mike Corrao's instant cult-classic GUT TEXT, the reader observes the text caught in the physical objectness of a book as it slowly becomes a living organism: self-conscious, feeling pain, fear, and desire. RITUALS PERFORMED IN THE ABSENCE OF GANYMEDE takes the text beyond the physical, where the reader and text enter the search for a body that can contain you both.

Rituals Performed in the Absence of Ganymede

Daniel A. Hughes

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