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Janice Lee

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Janice Lee (she/they) is a Korean American writer, teacher, spiritual scholar, and shamanic healer. She is the author of 7 books of fiction, creative nonfiction & poetry: KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Press, 2010), Daughter (Jaded Ibis, 2011), Damnation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2013), Reconsolidation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2015), The Sky Isn’t Blue (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016), Imagine a Death (Texas Review Press, 2021), and Separation Anxiety (CLASH Books, 2022). A roundtable, unanimous dreamers chime in, a collaborative novel co-authored with Brenda Iijima, is also forthcoming in 2022 from Meekling Press. An essay (co-authored with Jared Woodland) is featured in the recently released 4K restoration of Sátántangó (dir. Béla Tarr) from Arbelos Films. ...more

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	Reconsolidation: Or, it's the ghosts who will answer you 4.65 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Damnation 4.64 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Daughter 4.02 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sky Isn't Blue 4.56 avg rating — 52 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Imagine a Death: a novel 4.39 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	KEROTAKIS 4.69 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Separation Anxiety 4.58 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[out of nothing] #0: Theoretical Perspectives on the Substance Preceding by Janice Lee (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Eric Lindley (Editor), Christ Sylvester (Contributor) 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Transparent As Witness by Janice Lee (Goodreads Author), Will Alexander it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red Trees it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Dandelions Are Prophesizing: A Writing Workshop Through Plant & Mycelial Encounters (Online workshop w/ Corporeal Writing) / begins July 23

The Dandelions Are Prophesizing: A Writing Workshop Through Plant & Mycelial Encounters

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July 23 – August 19, 2023

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Janice Lee wrote a new blog post Adaptation Webinar – Janice Lee & Lidia Yuknavitch (Online w/ Corporeal Writing) / March 2 Adaptation: Something to Something ElseA webinar with Lidia Yuknavitch and Janice LeeThursday, March 2nd 1pm-4pm Pacific More Details at Corporeal Wri Read more of this blog post »
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“Draw a monster. Why is it a monster?”
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“In order to discover your own contents, you have to investigate the inside of someone else.”
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“Sometimes we eat others to affirm our own existence. Sometimes we forget what we see the moment we've seen it.”
― Janice Lee, Damnation

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“Death, he felt, was only a kind of warning rather than a desperate and permanent end.”
― Laszlo Krasznahorkai

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“There is an intense relationship between proximate objects, a much weaker one between objects further away, and as for the really distant ones there is none at all, and that is the nature of God.”
― László Krasznahorkai

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“In order to discover your own contents, you have to investigate the inside of someone else.”
― Janice Lee, Daughter

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“Sometimes we eat others to affirm our own existence. Sometimes we forget what we see the moment we've seen it.”
― Janice Lee, Damnation

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“There is something which it is like to be a human being. There is something which it is like to be a bat. There is something which it is like to be me.”
― Janice Lee, KEROTAKIS

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