Red Memory by Amy Bobeda
What if the origin of language were menstrual? In this cross-genre hybrid blend of languages, text, prose, and poetry readers dive into the ancient memory of original language. Anthropology, dreams, red garbage, and encounters with prairie dogs and hawks return to the age of questions: what makes us human? How did language evolve? Red Memory asks readers to forget what they’ve been taught and return to land, myth, dreams, and their own bodies, reclaiming the roots of language: blood and sound.
Amy grew up on California’s central coast where she dedicated her early life to theater and wearable art before dedicating her life to mythology, fairytales, and the connections between land, body, and menstruation. She holds an MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics where she founded Wisdom Body Collective and was the recipient of the Leslie Scalapino and keri edward’s scholarships for gender activism. In 2019 she was a writer at Mudhouse Residency in Crete, and Writer’s Workshop Paris hosted by Carve Magazine and Dallas Writer’s Workshop.
She is an editor of More Revolutionary Letters: A Tribute to Diane di Prima and runs Wisdom Body Collective’s imprint In Process. Her work can be read/is forthcoming in Entropy, Vol1 Brooklyn, Denver Quarterly, TYPO, Full-Stop, Ecotheo Review and elsewhere. @amybobeda on twitter. She currently lives in eastern Colorado where she teaches beginning writing and poetics.