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Clowns: Anthology

by Michelle Tea

Many faces of the clown

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Many faces of the clown

Edited by Michelle Tea, this anthology gathers poetry, fiction, screenplay, and other forms around the clown as a figure of vulnerability, performance, and disruption. Its pieces range from a dog sitter’s encounters with celebrity and self-promotion to a poet’s experience of falling in love, alongside reflections on art, drag, and the social meaning of being seen as an outsider. The collection treats clowning both as a source of embarrassment and as a way to unsettle expectations about what counts as normal. Across its varied forms, it approaches the archetype through humor, earnestness, and subversion.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in LGBTQ+ literary collections and anthologies.
  • Those seeking poetry and fiction that engage with performance, outsider identity, and the clown archetype.
  • Readers open to mixed forms, including screenplay and autofiction.

Themes

Clowning and performanceVulnerability and loveDrag and outsider identityArt and social norms

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Book overview

The third anthology from DOPAMINE Books that considers the many-sided splendor of the clown.

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 Megan Milks, Tania De Rozario, Nicole J. Georges, Clement Goldberg, Catherine Christina Martinez, Juli
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