Liz Worth’s Eleven: Eleven

A splatter of the surreal: Liz Worth’s Eleven: Eleven out now on Trainwreck Press

I am forgetting my name and am wearing incantations. Spirit animals. I go by all of them and none of them. These titles blur together like a collective scream…

This is a story built out of a collage. Part poetry, part surrealist fiction, Eleven: Eleven is an exciting new work that marks Liz Worth as an emerging voice on the experimental landscape. Written during a stretch of unemployment in the spring of 2008, this micro-novel pieces together a narrative that speaks through a fragmented consciousness of abstract poetics, claustrophobic fantasies, and scraps of torrid memories salvaged from Worth’s personal journals.

The day after she sees my suicide note she’s clinging to my door, hair a shiny coat, nails built out of the last lunar eclipse…

Eleven: Eleven doesn’t blur the lines between fact and fiction – instead it exposes the shades of gray that we all live in. Showing off traces of occult influence, instability, and self-destruction, this micro-novel tells the story of an anonymous narrator and her infatuation with her own demise while underlining the subjectivity of our own histories and actions.

… All I’m really doing is walking through these numbers, adding, subtracting the whorls of minutes, seeking the alchemy of time…

Just released by cutting-edge undergroung publisher Trainwreck Press, Eleven: Eleven is now here for your cult consumption. Order it now at: www.ditchpoetry.com/trainwreckpress.htm

About Liz Worth:
Liz Worth is an experimental writer and freelance journalist living in Toronto. Her poetry has been featured on ditch, (www.ditchpoetry.com/lizworth) and the anthology Strong Words: Year 2. She is the author of the forthcoming tome on Toronto punk history, Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral History of Punk in Toronto and Beyond (Bongo Beat), and her writing has appeared in The Toronto Star, Toronto Life, Exclaim!, Punk Planet, and Broken Pencil, among other publications: www.lizworth.com