Gag

GAG: a sequence of rotting doors / mild suburban hell / rooms lorded over by men of obscenity / a blighted novella /sister book to PX138 3100-2686 User's Manual / a little limb, little dog / bodies trapped in basements / leather, plastic, film / pile of burnt manuscripts / Antonin Artaud's body writhing on an asylum floor / the outside world of light and terrors / an offensive dictionary / a song of TV's great criminals / mere book / the acorns on the forgotten grave of Donatien Alphonse Fran�ois de Sade / a collection of evidence from taped cabinets."Strange and severe, reworking language into a series of ritual gestures, Gag takes the words and phrases you thought you knew and with them performs a new way of speaking, one that is sensation-based rather than knowledge-based. Gag is the kind of book that recomposes itself in the compost of your brain so that only days later do you realize what it's done to you."--Brian Evenson, author of A Collapse of Horses, Altmann's Tongue, and others"Reading Grant Maierhofer's Gag should feel like driving a manual car for the first time: jerky, disorienting, and neurotic." --Vi Khi Nao, author of Fish in Exile"Gag takes place in a haunting and unpredictable world where silence is pure, violence is a career, and everyone is meat. Reading this book is like entering a dream, or a nightmare, depending on the page." --Chelsea Hodson, author of Pity the Animal