Sappho Terror

Tuesday, September 8
7pm
at 2220 Arts+Archives

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Celebrating the release of Maura Modeya's SAPPHO TERROR from PRROBLEM Press. With Sophie Appel, Ivanna Baranova, and imogen smith.

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Maura Modeya’s SAPPHO TERROR is a book haunted—by empire, by sleeplessness, by Sappho herself. In it, queerness becomes both the agent of terror and its object. “I want to be consumed. I want to disappear twice.” Extending the experiments of Mayer, Lonidier, and Stein, Modeya’s poems are as much about desire as they are about violence. They let us in on a secret: “Logic sometimes is so disgusting.” At once delirious and hyperalert, performance and document of a performance, SAPPHO TERROR disrupts the routines of everyday life from within. “Tending to the eros of writing something down.”