Download Give Sorrow Words: Maryse Holder's Letters from Mexico AudioBook Free
In 1976, Maryse Holder traveled to Mexico to go after a life of sexual exploration. She had written some letters explaining her experiences, in which she indicated a prefer to "wring a masterpiece from my life". Following Holder's brutal murder in Mexico at age 36, these characters became the basis for the booklet Give Sorrow Words: Maryse Holder's Letters from Mexico. Publicized in 1979 by Grove Press, with an intro by Kate Millett, it was praised by The NY Times Book Review, the Kirkus Review, and her writing compared to Genet, Jean Rhys, and Henry Miller in it's sexual candor and artistry. In 2013, Edith Jones, the girl to whom Maryse Holder had written those characters, re-issued Give Sorrow Words in a fresh edition. This long-forgotten masterpiece of feminist sexuality is timelier than ever before, foreshadowing the blunt speak about a woman's erotic life embodied by Lena Dunham as well as others. Give Sorrow Words is the storyplot of 1 woman's stunning descent into a provocative world of lust and threat. As Maryse Holder's characters explore the previous, eventful calendar months in her life, they speak right to the listener - forcing us to confront the pain, and even sometimes the interest, of living on the advantage of life, to the finish.
