Janice Lee

A roundtable, unanimous dreamers chime in is an ecological picaresque that reworlds possible senses of interrelation and personhood. In a spacious unending-unfolding, various narrators impact one another in a process of metamorphosis. In ecologically-sensitive language, perpetually in motion, sequences of occurrence crest and flow and pool in awareness. The protagonists persist in a looking glass biome of reality. Written collaboratively in a veritable hypnotic state by Janice Lee and Brenda Iijima, consciousness merges symbiotically and telepathically. Intent on stripping away the veneer of the "human" the work presses on toward mutuality with all floral, faunal, mineral, and viral presences to gain new insights into terrestrial cohabitation. Lee and Iijima probe the supposed limits and boundaries of bodies and in doing so, discover mutual affinity, cohabitation, and resonance. Intensely responsive, the work sclings and converses with everyone and everything it encounters."This book reminds me that it is still possible to be astonished, like a book actually happened to me, language unearthed, heart brought back to life, storytelling as incantation, unbound cosmic song."--Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Thrust"A roundtable, unanimous dreamers chime in is a collection of vignettes of disintegration, mergers, and potentialities, a sensuous loosening of the human corporeal and psychic unit. Read Brenda Iijima and Janice Lee's collaboration for the surge of energy that runs through this book's open pores. Enter a dizzying journey of an injured bike rider in an injured world finding new potentialities as a squirrel mistakes her for a tree, as she becomes squirrel, becomes tree, becomes parched by fire and cooled by river. "Trees are an interface," "the soil is a membrane" and the "I" fractures like a seed that needs the fire's heat to sprout. Walking humans, friends, strangers, a ritual for a dead small dog who might become a companion spirit: the stories reach toward connection in human-shaped and more-than-human shaped ways, allowing the feeling human "I" to oscillate rather than vanish. Even the chance procedures of time and space conspire toward relation--"A list of the dog hairs that I didn't see but saved in my pocket." In this viral interspecies penetration, there's always searching: "Refugee status of microbes, pathogens--everyone looking for a home.""--Petra Kuppers, author of Eco Soma"Matter is promiscuous in Iijima and Lee"s A roundtable, unanimous dreamers chime in, leaking from one body to the next, creating an embodied syntax that communicates a meaning much wider, much greener and weirder than the one humans generally practice. One wants to lick this text. To digest and excrete it. This book is good soil."--Sophie Strand, author of The Flowering Wand and The Madonna SecretFiction. Nature.

A complex and entangled text that explores inherited trauma, the presence of ghosts, interspecies communication, the dream world, grief, and human/animal separation. Weaving wisdom from her shamanic practice and the interstices of language, and in the difficult moments anticipating the deaths of her beloved dog companions, Separation Anxiety marks the first collection of poetry from acclaimed prose writer Janice Lee, and is a meditation on inhabitation and existence beyond the human.

In the face of a slow but impending apocalypse, what binds three seemingly divergent lives (a writer, a photographer, an old man), isn’t the commonality of a perceived future death, but the layered and complex fabric of how loss, abuse, trauma, and death have shaped their pasts, and how these pasts continue to haunt their present moments, a moment in which time seems to be running out. The writer, traumatized by the violent death of her mother when she was a child, lives alone with her dog and struggles to finish her book. The photographer, stunted by the death of his grandmother and caretaker, struggles to take a single picture and enters into a complicated relationship with the writer. The old man, facing his past in small doses, spends his time watching television and reorganizing the objects in his apartment to stay distracted from the deterioration around him. A depiction of the cycles of abuse and trauma in a prolonged end-time, Imagine a Death examines the ways in which our pasts envelop us, the ways in which we justify horrible things in the name of survival, all of the horrible and beautiful things we are capable of when we are hurt and broken, and the animal (and plant) companions that ground us.

This "how-to" manual encompasses the author's 18 years of experience in the performance of Dilation and Evacuation procedures. This work describes and explains the use of instruments and, in a step-by-step fashion, utilizes very understandable photos of models to illustrate maneuvers for both early and later gestations. Originally composed for the residents she was teaching, this is an excellent guide for physicians who wish to improve or expand their abortion techniques.

No technique of cinema is as royal and as risky as the Long Take-audacious in its promise of unified time and space, terrifying in what that might imply. Inspired by the films of Hungarian auteur Bela Tarr, famous for his long take, and the novels and screenplays of Tarr's great collaborator Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Janice Lee's Damnation is both an ekphrasis and confession, an obsessive response, a poetic meditation and mirror on time; time that ruthlessly pulls forward with our endurance; time unleashed from chronology and prediction; time which resides in a dank, drunk, sordid hiss of relentless static. As declared in Tarr's film Damnation, "All stories are about disintegration."

In one earth shattering moment, Sheldon Henry Stottz's near perfect life is changed forever. The influenza epidemic of 1918 had already taken many lives, but now it had resulted in the untimely death of his wife, Lila and their newborn, Rose. In what seemed like a single breath, the people Sheldon Henry loved the most where gone, and his rock-solid faith shaken to the core. Why was God letting this happen? What had he done to deserve such agony, such utter pain? "I've always been faithful." he thought, "I have always believed."Just when he thought things could not get worse, they did. At the graveside service of his beloved family, Sheldon Henry is suddenly arrested on suspicion of being a German spy. "This can't be happening." he thought, "Not here. Not now."Still in shock over the deaths of his beloved family, he is ripped away and immediately transported to a military prison for questioning."Why God?" "What have I done to deserve this?" "Is this a test?" "Is there something you are trying to teach me?" "Have I done something wrong?" "Tell me, Father, please tell me."In the days that follow, Sheldon Henry is tested to the limits of his personal and spiritual endurance. His confusion over what has happened, and the isolation of prison, only amplify his unbearable sense of loss. He dreams of Lila. Her voice. Her tender touch. She is always on his mind even though he knows she is gone forever.Shortly after his release from prison, Sheldon stumbles upon a young woman in tears. She's deeply broken, and while trying to offer some comfort, Sheldon suddenly realizes that God has spared him for a purpose; a purpose he would perhaps soon understand.AuthorsLynette Chambers & Janice Lee