Nympholepsy
selections from the prose-poetry novella out from Inside The Castle,2018
finalist for the 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize, selected by Bhanu Kapil
forthcoming in the Best American Experimental Writing 2020, selected by Joyelle McSweeney and Carmen Maria Machado
“It is hard to overstate just how genuinely pleasurable Morhardt-Goldstein & Basile’s lines are to imbibe. For the first time I can really recall, I found myself wanting to read aloud, to myself, just to feel the beauty of this language on my tongue… Kindred to Angela Carter, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, and the early films of Catherine Breillat, there is something of both the profane, and the feminine divine captured in the pages of Nympholepsy—something so breathtakingly mysterious and, at the same time, primevally, preternaturally known—that as a man I could probably read it 100 times and still not fully understand. But that’s the gap this realm and caliber of art works to bridge—that rarest and truest expression of what it’s like on the other side.
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::Alraune::
Loss is the hardest thing, and yet we run toward forgetting.
You and I know, there is a thing and the idea of it. An other, an envy that looks human — more than, I give it such luster even it takes the air out of me — a self and an idea of it and another.
