Julie, or Sylvia

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When a woman awakens in a London asylum, she isn’t sure whether she is dead or alive, how she got there, and what is real. Time is kept by seasons, not hours or minutes. Strange characters—including an exorcist, a sadistic doctor, and multiple spirits—visit her bedside. As she tries to convince those around her that she is the deceased poet Sylvia Plath, her condition further deteriorates and she begins to plot her escape. Julie, or Sylvia is a genre-bending collaborative work blending horror, poetry, and literary fiction, with a surreal frame story of bizarre extremes. Written by Nicole Tallman, Beryl Cooper, and Ibrahim Sofiyullaha.

ISBN-13: 979-8-9895422-4-6

242 pp.

Cover art by Jenn Zed

Jacket design by Josh Dale

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When a woman awakens in a London asylum, she isn’t sure whether she is dead or alive, how she got there, and what is real. Time is kept by seasons, not hours or minutes. Strange characters—including an exorcist, a sadistic doctor, and multiple spirits—visit her bedside. As she tries to convince those around her that she is the deceased poet Sylvia Plath, her condition further deteriorates and she begins to plot her escape. Julie, or Sylvia is a genre-bending collaborative work blending horror, poetry, and literary fiction, with a surreal frame story of bizarre extremes. Written by Nicole Tallman, Beryl Cooper, and Ibrahim Sofiyullaha.

ISBN-13: 979-8-9895422-4-6

242 pp.

Cover art by Jenn Zed

Jacket design by Josh Dale

Reviews

Coming Soon

 
 

About the Authors

Nicole Tallman is the author of three previous collections: Something Kindred and Poems for the People (The Southern Collective Experience Press, 2022 & 2023), and FERSACE (ELJ Editions, 2023). She serves as the official Poetry Ambassador for Miami-Dade County (Florida), Editor of Redacted Books, and Poetry and Interviews Editor for The Blue Mountain Review and South Florida Poetry Journal. Julie, or Sylvia is her collaborative fiction debut. Find her on social media @natallman and at nicoletallman.com.

Ibrahim Sofiyullaha is a writer who has dedicated his career to exploring the human condition through his unique, evocative prose and journalism. His work has been published in numerous literary publications and is the author of Through the Aisle of My Fantasy. In his personal life, Ibrahim is a devoted man who enjoys spending time with his family and traveling to new and exciting places.

Beryl Cooper is the obvious pseudonym (or heteronym, depending on mood) of a person not nearly notable enough to require such obfuscation. Beryl is a joke, a pun, a sort of homophonic stutter. Beryl is oriented toward depersonalization and de-subjectivization, a disembodiment or becoming a ghost. Maybe. In other words, Beryl is (not).