Clowns by Michelle Tea

Clowns by Michelle Tea

A blogging dog sitter cringes out on celebrity, Slinkys, and self-promotion. A poet experiences the clowny vulnerability of falling in love. Drunk Muppets ponder the uselessness of art. A transitioning drag queen muses on being "the crazy one, the one who doesn't give a fuck."

In this anthology of poetry, fiction, screenplay, and more, writers explore and explode the archetype of the CLOWN in all of its humiliating, earnest, magical, subversive glory. From fiction that reveals the humanity beneath the smeared greasepaint to psychedelic autofiction to poetry that exposes normal folk for the sickening anomalies they are, CLOWNS will get under your skin until it liberates your own inner clown, be it a smart-ass or trickster, sad sack or buffoon.

With work from Maz Murray, Sophie Robinson, Grace Byron, Andrea Lawlor, Megan Milks, Nicole J. Georges, Jake Hall, Vivek Shraya, and other holy fools.

Michelle Tea is the author of over twenty books of fiction, memoir, poetry and children's literature. Herautofiction, Valencia, a cult classic, won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Fiction. Her essaycollection Against Memoir was awarded the PEN/America Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for The Art ofthe Essay. Tea is also the recipient of awards from The Rona Jaffe Foundation, as well as the GuggenheimFoundation. The founder of Drag Queen Story Hour, she has received honors from the American LibraryAssociation and Logo Television. Tea curated the Sister Spit Books series at City Lights Publisher, andfounded the ongoing imprint Amethyst Edition at The Feminist Press.

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ISBN 13	9781917008310
ISBN 10	1917008317
Title	Clowns
Author	Michelle Tea
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cipher Press
Year published	2026-07-16
Number of pages	304
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.