YPSILANTI, Mich. — Homofactus Press proudly congratulates Eli Clare on his 2007 Lambda Literary Award finalist nomination for The Marrow's Telling: Words in Motion.
A collection of poetry and prose, The Marrow's Telling spans fifteen years, exploring how bodies carry history and identity over time. Embracing contradiction and repetition, this work maps itself around embodied experiences of disability, race, gender transgression and transition, family violence, and sexuality.
White, disabled, and genderqueer, Eli Clare has a B.A. in Women's Studies, a M.F.A. in Creative Writing, and most importantly a penchant for rabble-rousing. Among other pursuits, he has walked across the United States for peace, coordinated a rape prevention program, and helped organize the first ever Queerness and Disability Conference. He has spoken all over the United States at conferences, community events, and colleges about disability, queer identities, and social justice.
The sophomore work from new Ypsilanti-based publishing house Homofactus Press (www.homofactuspress.com), The Marrow's Telling is vivid and frank about white privilege, peace work, class, disability, childhood abuse, gender transgressions, and queer sexuality. Publisher Jay Sennett is delighted: "We are thrilled that this collection of poetry and prose - one that is both harrowing and redemptive - has been honored by the Lambda Literary Foundation."
"As a poet who writes about disability, queerness, and the body, and as an activist who is committed to art, as well as polemic, to have my work recognized is sweet. But that recognition isn't only about me. It's also about the many communities from which my work arises," states Eli Clare.
The mission of Homofactus Press is to publish the highest quality of books that discuss meaningful experiences by, for, and about FtMs, with particular emphasis towards communities of color and communities with disabilities. But we also publish other books like the upcoming Kicked Out and Femmethology. We live complex lives, with conflicting identities. Shouldn't our literature support that?