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Why can't literature be wet? Why can't the canon be cunty? They should teach this in high schools.
— Heather
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Poetry. LGBT Studies. Women's Studies. In CUNT NORTON, the sequel to her unforgettable CUNT UPS, Dodie Bellamy cunts The Norton Anthology of Poetry (1975 edition), setting her text-ravenous cut-ups loose to devour the canonical voices of English literature. The texts that emerge from this sexual-linguistic encounter are monstrous, beautiful, unashamed: 33 erotic love poems (the greatest fuck poem in the English language, according to Ariana Reines) that lust after the very aesthetic they resist. These patriarchal voices that threatened to erase me--of course I love them as well, Bellamy writes. Even as CUNT NORTON dismembers the history of English poetry, cunting Chaucer and Shakespeare, Emerson and Lowell, it simultaneously allows new sexual members to arise and fill in the gaps, transforming the secret into the explicit, the classically beautiful into the wonderfully grotesque. Bellamy's cunted texts breathe life into literary masters with joy, honesty, hilarity, and insatiable passion.
I think this could be the most joyful book on Earth.--Ariana Reines.
