Doug Rice
Dream Memoirs of a Fabulist
Sacramento: Copilot Press, 2011. Limited edition (328/500). 0982144822 Unpaginated.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 5.25", enclosed in a loose wrap-around black cover. With laid-in material. Book design is by Stephanie Sauer.
"In his first book in nearly ten years, Doug Rice moves against the silence of paper and dreams in a meditation on desire, a memoir told and untold somewhere between image and word. Undeveloped photographs. Bodies abandoned by reflections. Mirrors gone ecstatic with wanting. "Dream Memoirs of a Fabulist" becomes memory for a time that never was. The book itself is book as exposure. Cover falls away, single sentences drip themselves across multiple pages, windows pull the gaze forward then back then down in a tactile interaction with reading. You find things here, literally, tucked between the pages. This book is for play. This is a book built for pleasure."