:: TRUNK ::

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The Trunk series explores the way the human body bisects the world of art and writing. Volume One: Hair, begins at the top with one of the most contested and contradictory body parts – simultaneously a symbol of attraction and revulsion.

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The casting call for Hair (the book) was probably pretty similar to that of Hair (the musical). Seeking: bearded Jesus look-alikes (Portuguese Christian Princess St. Wilgefortis makes an appearance), long-haired hippies (we don’t know that for sure, but some of the contributors seem like likely candidates), stylised afros (from the ridgey-didge Aboriginal versions to African parlours in Enmore) and sexual overtones (a poem on pubes, par example). The follicularly-challenged need not apply.

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Trunk books are a new series of personal, sensual books that are intended to be filled with beautiful and fascinating content. The idea is that they’re filled with treasure, just like an old trunk in the attic.

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TRUNK Volume Two: BLOOD

Submissions due December 31 2010

further details on the two: BLOOD page

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Launch of Trunk Volume One: Hair
Edited by Suzanne Boccalatte & Meredith Jones

Published by Boccalatte Pty Ltd.

Please join us at the Sydney Writers’ Festival to celebrate.

Sunday, 24 May 2009, 6.00pm–7.30pm

Refreshments will be served
Bangarra Mezzanine
Pier 4/5, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay

An artistic volume teases out the cultural, religious and social significance of human hair.
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WE LOVE it cascading from a woman’s head, long, thick and lustrous. We admire it arching above a smokily kohled eye. But catch a hair in the mouth or, worse, in the back of the throat and the reaction is repulsion. Find a strand, a strand that is not ours, floating in a bowl of soup and the meal is ruined. Defiled even.

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