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Coping with Ashley Farmer, Author of ‘The Women’ & ‘Beside Myself’

by CCM December 19, 2016
written by CCM

#CopingWith is CCM’s interview series run by managing editor Joanna C. Valente


Ashley Farmer’s books, “The Women,” which came out on March 11, 2016, and “Beside Myself,” which came out on September 30, 2016, came out from CCM this year. Of “The Women,” Megan Martin has said, “Reading Ashley Farmer’s The Women is like reading a cubist painting. These scavenged voices collide, contradict, entertain, horrify, and surprise as they create a dizzying and complex conversation about what it means to be a woman at this particular moment in time. In poems that are by turns witty, beautiful, and moving, Farmer investigates the disturbing chasm between how women are seen and how they see themselves. Even as she unapologetically documents the power that systemic oppression has over our daily lives, her women emerge as brave, hungry, and resilient. The Women simultaneously made my blood boil and made me feel less alone.”

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As such, we interviewed her about her books, although instead of asking her boring lit questions, our managing editor Joanna C. Valente asked her about everything else instead, like what her favorite meal and apocalypse plans are.

Describe your favorite meal. 

Green curry tofu. Beautiful, simple sushi that tastes like the sea. Tostadas and tamales from Merced’s in Long Beach. This chicken soup I make for Ryan and me that takes quite a while but is worth it. A very occasional filet. Scallops. Wick’s Pizza in Louisville, KY with a good beer and my friends. Anything I’m eating at my mom’s or my mother-in-law’s houses where there are siblings and babies and grandparents and dogs around.

What music do you often write to, if at all? 

I listen to all kinds of stuff when I write, everything from the Kinks to Elliott Smith to Rachmaninoff to Otis Redding to Sibylle Baier. Right now I listen to Beethoven’s concertos while I write—they make my brain feel alive, but kind of gut me in a good way. I also like driving around, listening to music, and thinking about a writing project I’m working on. I’ll get new ideas that way sometimes.

What are three books that you’ve always identified with?

I’m thinking about this in terms of books I identified with a long time ago that still resonate with me today:

Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan: My grandmother had some Brautigan books at her house and I read Sombrero Fallout one summer when I was maybe twelve. It blew my mind. Brautigan is weird and wild and kindred.

The Awakening by Kate Chopin: I read this in high school and it was frankly the first time I’d been introduced to a “serious book” by and about a woman. That was important to me.

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath: Like she did for other women writers I know, Plath showed me at a very young age that there was a different way of interpreting the world. I just recently went to back her work—almost accidentally—and I’m fascinated by her again.

Choose one painting that describes who you are. What is it?

I work in an art museum, so I love this question. Priscilla Johnson (1966) by Alice Neel is a painting in the Speed Art Museum’s collection in Louisville, KY. I remembered visiting that museum when I was a kid and she stuck with me. It’s a larger painting with a real presence, and I loved that she seemed restless and thoughtful and intense and opinionated. Years later, I had the chance to work at that same museum and see her in person on a regular basis, again and again. I still love her.

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Choose a gif that encompasses mornings for you.

What do you imagine the apocalypse is like? How would you want to die?

I deliberately don’t imagine either of these things, if I can help it.

How would you describe your social media persona/role?

More observer than participant. Effusive liker. Listener. I come to learn and pay attention to people who know more than/differently from me. That feels like my role right now. I also come for bird photos and panda videos and to watch my friends’ babies grow up.

What’s your favorite animal and why?

My cat, Karate. She’s a huge tuxedo cat with a disagreeable personality. She wakes me up every morning and attacks my ankles if I walk past her the wrong way. She once got me in trouble with the TSA when I tried (and failed) to fly her across the country. She barely tolerates me and she won’t let me hold her, but I love her so.

What do you carry with you at all times? 

Pink lipstick, loose change.


ashley farmerAshley Farmer is the author of the women (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016), The Farmacist (Jellyfish Highway Press, 2015), beside myself (Pank/Tiny Hardcore Press, 2014), and the chapbook farm town (Rust Belt Bindery, 2012). A former editor for publications like Atomica Magazine, Salt Hill Journal, and others, she currently serves as an editor for Juked. Ashley resides in Salt Lake City, ut with her husband, Ryan Ridge.

 

joanna valenteJoanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015), Marys of the Sea (ELJ Publications, 2016), & Xenos (2016, Agape Editions). She received her MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College. She is also the founder of Yes, Poetry, as well as the managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine and CCM. Some of her writing has appeared in Prelude, The Atlas Review, The Feminist Wire, BUST, Pouch, and elsewhere. She also teaches workshops at Brooklyn Poets.

December 19, 2016
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NOW AVAILABLE: The Quarter 1 2016 Catalogue

by CCM March 11, 2016
written by CCM

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“To read Janice Lee’s new book, The Sky Isn’t Blue, is to remember. […] The book disappeared as it became each second ticking away in my life, reminding me that I will not be able to save it nor will I ever be able to forget. ”
–Chiwan Choi, author of Abductions

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RaGoransson“Love letters. Love poetry. […] Johannes Göransson’s letters to an ex-lover Ra — as well as the letters in this book to the radiator, history, Susan Sontag, America, poetry itself–come from a poet whose ‘heart [and poetics] belongs to a drive-by shooting.’ Reading them is to be invited into the theater of utterly mixed metaphors where nothing follows.’”
–Steve Tomasula, author of The Book of Portraiture

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insignificana“In the spirit of Donald Barthelme, Dolan Morgan queers the every day and leaves a sinister domestic scene behind.”
–Catherine Lacey, author of No One Is Ever Missing

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AmericanMaryx1“Told almost entirely through lyrical fragments and beautifully-observed scenes, Alexandra Naughton’s American Mary is the latest incarnation of the Great American Novella, at once unsettling and moving.”
–Michael Kimball, author of Us

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TheWomenFarmer“Reading Ashley Farmer’s The Women is like reading a cubist painting. […] Even as she unapologetically documents the power that systemic oppression has over our daily lives, her women emerge as brave, hungry, and resilient. The Women simultaneously made my blood boil and made me feel less alone.”
–Megan Martin, author of Nevers

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youwithyourCover“Gary Shipley’s conception of reality is more like our actual present reality than our literary culture’s usual inbred narrative realism can afford. […] Literature almost doesn’t deserve this maniac, and thank hell he’s here.
–Blake Butler, author of Three Hundred Million

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Mallbratcover“With pop pastiche, lyrical pirouettes, and sage insights parading as ‘confessions,’ these poems position—like a ballet class at its bar pivoting towards the mirror—the young against the old, the native against the new, and the innocent against the cynical to show them how, together, they more beautifully out of sync.”
–Monica McClure, author of Tender Data

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March 11, 2016
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ANNOUNCING: The 2015 CCM Compendium

by CCM December 7, 2015
written by CCM
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Cover design by Ryan W Bradley

CCM is pleased to announce the first annual CCM COMPENDIUM. This is an idea that’s been bouncing around in the back of my mind for at least a year now, and thanks to the help of Ryan W Bradley (who created this fabulous hardcover wraparound cover design) and dozens upon dozens of CCM authors, the idea is now a reality.

Acting as a synergy of present and future, the 2015 CCM COMPENDIUM will feature work by every author published by the press in 2015 as well as samples of work from every author with a forthcoming publication in CCM’s 2016 Catalogue. What does this mean? It means you can expect writing from:

(2015 Catalogue) xTx, Brandi Wells, AT Grant, Andrea Kneeland, Jayinee Basu, Sean H Doyle, Katie Jean Shinkle, M Kitchell, Darby Larson, John Colasacco, Jamie Iredell, Brandon Hobson, Mark Katzman, Ben Brooks, Ryan W Bradley, Kirsten Alene, Brian Oliu, Corey Zeller, and Evan Retzer

(2016 Catalogue) Janice Lee, Johannes Goransson, Alexandra Naughton, Dolan Morgan, Matthew Simmons, Gary J Shipley, Ashley Farmer, Laura Marie Marciano, Justin Sirois, Sara June Woods, Madison Langston, Carolyn Zaikowski, Tobias Carroll, Joshua Jennifer Espinosa, Andrew Miller, Ctch Bsnss, Wendy C Ortiz, Henry Hoke, Helen McClory, and Mathias Svalina

At the conclusion of every yearly Catalogue, CCM will publish a Compendium to celebrate the passing of the torch, of sorts, from one year to the next. Each Compendium will be published in a high quality hardcover edition, designed to sit next to both its representative Catalogue of titles as well as other, future Compendiums. It’s my hope that by offering this showcase, readers will be able to enjoy some of their favorite writers’ work in one convenient place as well as discover (and anticipate) the work of writers they might not have known about prior to the Compendium.

The 2015 CCM COMPENDIUM will be available January 13th 2016 wherever books are sold. We’re coping.

December 7, 2015
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