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Crocosmia

August 15, 2025 | Trade paperback
ISBN: 9781643622750
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Description

Crocosmia joins hands with other utopian dreams that take seriously the real impacts of imaginative works on senses of possibility and futurity. 

A philosophical fable, Crocosmia centers on Maya as she recollects the "great turning"--an epochal shift towards egalitarian eco-socialism. She recalls growing up on a rural commune run by anarchist nuns and how her mother, Jane, created a telekinetic artwork with the uncanny power to intervene in geopolitics. Maya and Jane's relationship enacts the tension between a life of wounded, lyrical solitude and militant, anti-statist action. This lush novella is a meditation on how, on the precipice of biospheric unraveling, dreams of communal care can bloom.

About this Author

Miranda Mellis is the author of Demystifications (2021); The Instead; The Spokes (2012); None of This Is Real (2012); The Revisionist (2007). She has been an artist-in-residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and Millay Colony. She received the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction, the Michael S. Harper Praxis Prize, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She grew up in San Francisco and now lives in Olympia, Washington.

ISBN: 9781643622750
Format: Trade paperback
Pages: 120
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Published: 2025-08-15

Reviews

"There's an uncanny lightness about Miranda Mellis's gliding techno-novella. It's slow and glimmery like steam punk--and wise about gender too. She's right up there (for me) with Bob Dylan, folk art, anime and all the kind and great animals and plants of the world. I love this book so much."
--Eileen Myles, in praise of The Revisionist 

 "Mellis uses aphorism to bring us back to basics--what is the best way to proceed, starting from here? How should we inhabit the present? By excavation, by error, by exaggeration, by gesture, by revolt, by contradiction, by voice, by tone."
--Robert Glück

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