THE HOT AND COLD TRILOGY
THE HOT AND COLD TRILOGY is the overall title of a trilogy of three novels, which is near completion. One of the reasons
I began this work was because of Kathy Acker’s urging, telling me that - “Your poetry’s great. You should write novels.”
Each novel focuses on a different woman and each narrative is written in such a way as to drive deeper into the person’s innermost core. Rooted in distant family, the three novels explore the crimes of murder and hypocrisy and are about love
and sex, and the way real life is endlessly retold as ‘story.’
This excerpt is the first 35 pages of one the trilogy’s novels, COLD BLUE GREY HOT ORANGE©:
Drake Stutesman 2020
“Utterly engrossing … amazing.
I cried for five hours.
I read it straight through.
It would make a great movie.”
- Jytte Jensen, MoMA Senior Curator, Film and Media
“Terrific … reaches me in places
I didn’t know were there.”
- George Quasha, Station Hill Press, Guggenheim Fellowship
“Singular, powerful, disturbing.”
- Fanny Howe, Radical Love, Nod
“Brilliant!… Really beautiful.”
- Denise Riley, Am I That Name, Words of Selves