{"id":8506,"date":"2013-04-04T18:22:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T01:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/?p=8506"},"modified":"2013-04-10T22:30:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T05:30:28","slug":"book-review-reaching-out-with-no-hands-reconsidering-yoko-ono-by-lisa-carver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2013\/04\/04\/book-review-reaching-out-with-no-hands-reconsidering-yoko-ono-by-lisa-carver\/","title":{"rendered":"book review: Reaching Out With No Hands: Reconsidering Yoko Ono, by Lisa Carver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Books]<br \/>\n<strong><\/p>\n<h1><em>Reaching Out With No Hands:<br \/>\nReconsidering Yoko Ono<\/em><\/h1>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"reviewermag\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>\nby Lisa Carver, from Backbeat Books, $18.99, biography, 5&#215;7&#8243; (approx) hardcover with dust jacket, 154 pages, 2012, <a href=\"http:\/\/backbeatbooks.com\">backbeatbooks.com<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_8507\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8507\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cmyk-lise-carver-yoko.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8507\" alt=\"Reaching Out With No Hands RECONSIDERING YOKO ONO, by Lisa Carver\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cmyk-lise-carver-yoko-259x300.jpg?resize=259%2C300\" width=\"259\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cmyk-lise-carver-yoko.jpg?resize=259%2C300&amp;ssl=1 259w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cmyk-lise-carver-yoko.jpg?w=419&amp;ssl=1 419w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reaching Out With No Hands RECONSIDERING YOKO ONO, by Lisa Carver<\/figcaption><\/figure>book review by Reviewer Rob<\/p>\n<p>In 1994 or 95 was weaning off of being the drunk nightclub photographer at <em>Revolt in Style<\/em> magazine because I had a habit of shooting nude photos of girls I met in bars that advertised with them. Mainly for fun but I did have artistic ambitions; I felt it was an \u201cartistic pursuit.\u201d The drunks, druggies and dealers that were always in the office at <em>Revolt<\/em> were getting more and more jealous and vibey towards me so I\u2019d decided to seek greener pastures. Their gig wasn\u2019t paying much anyway. I was a bit of a self-absorbed douche with little formal education so getting a real job for more than chump change as a photographer or reporter at <em>The Union Tribune<\/em> or <em>The San Diego Reader<\/em> wasn\u2019t happening. So I had an idea. I\u2019d start a publication of my own and call it <em>Reviewer<\/em>. Then I could get as drunk as I wanted and shoot as many photos as I wanted and write about whatever I thought was worth writing about and NO ONE COULD STOP ME! But how to do it was something I still needed to figure out. What little time I had spent in high school was not in the yearbook class. Trevor at <em>Revolt<\/em> was clever enough to publish my photos but not let me know anything about how to run the paper he owned since I was always pretty open about how I wanted to rule the world and he was always so paranoid he\u2019d lose control of his magazine. He eventually did anyway but that\u2019s irrelevant. What matters here is I needed someone who could show me how it\u2019s done. So I started collecting per-zines at Tower Records, as they were called in the 1990\u2019s. A per-zine is a personal magazine, a self-published periodical. It\u2019s really a very condescending term but that\u2019s what they were called. In <em>Factsheet Five<\/em>. a magazine printed by some punk rock bohemians in the San Francisco bay area, I had seen Lisa\u2019s magazine <em>ROLLERDERBY<\/em> listed in their favorites section. When I called the <em>Factsheet<\/em> editorial number to ask some probing questions and continue my quest for knowledge the girl that answered the phone responded with one name that I can remember: \u201cLisa Carver.\u201d She said it slowly, with such delight, as if it were her favorite food. I needed to find out more. They had categories for all the publications they reviewed in <em>Factsheet<\/em>, and when I saw that <em>ROLLERDERBY<\/em> was listed in the \u201csex\u201d genre I knew I must investigate. I\u2019ve always been a bit of a freak when it comes to that subject, and not for the reasons that you might assume. Observing other people who are obsessed with sex is often more entertaining for me than doing it myself. Anyways, Lisa was blonde, blue eyed, skinny, unfiltered and rumored to perform in the nude. She was also, I would later find out, a former teenage prostitute who got one of her first jobs turning tricks at a massage parlor in Maine shortly after graduating high school. And here she was selling her own self-published glossy slick-covered magazine filled with stream of consciousness writing about her adventures with friends and famous people she\u2019d meet, interview and sometimes fuck. To me she was the perfect alternative to those hip and pretentious dudes at <em>Revolt<\/em>. Since she was female her existence grew into a nurturing influence. The fact that she was younger than me by several years made no difference; she held a type of motherly image in my weird, misguided mind. Or at least she was a kind of strong-willed older sister type. Being an only child made this association rather easy for me. So as you can see my unhealthy fascination with Lisa Carver has persisted for almost twenty years now. Which is why I was so thrilled to get <em><strong>REACHING OUT WITH NO HANDS RECONSIDERING YOKO ONO<\/strong><\/em> for review. But it\u2019s a disappointment. I\u2019ve loved Lisa\u2019s writing many times before, even on the pages of <em>Reviewer<\/em>. But this book is not an example of her best work. Lisa often excels in her shorter pieces, like the articles she does currently for <em>VICE<\/em>, discussing intimate personal details from her own childhood or the challenges of being a single mom of an autistic son. There\u2019s times she crafts words and ideas to high art. I just didn\u2019t see her doing that here, not even sure she tried. Apparently she didn\u2019t interview Yoko Ono for any material. There\u2019s fans who\u2019ll disagree with me. I read one positive review on Amazon by a guy named Mike Edison shortly after the release last year. This is experimental art writing. She starts out with quick, sometimes one-page chapters, She gets thoughts out there rapid-fire like bullets from a gun. Then later once her shore party has gained a foothold in your mind she goes longer in the sections in hopes of digging in deeper. <em>RECONSIDERING<\/em> is a tribute to what is a new role model for Lisa, and it\u2019s good to see her stretching. The \u201cAmbassador Of Autism\u201d chapter felt like an afterthought at the end of the book. But of course it was a central motivation for her to write it, as her profoundly mentally disabled boy Wolf turned 18 the same year it was released. If you\u2019re a fan of Lisa Carver you should buy this book. If you are a fan of Yoko Ono you may find it interesting for reasons I can not define. I expected more from this unique writer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>:::<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Links:<\/h3>\n<p><em>Radio interview for NPR:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fromthebookshelf.com\/Gary_Shapiros_From_The_Bookshelf\/Gary_Shapiros_From_the_Bookshelf\/Entries\/2012\/12\/2_Lisa_Carver_on_Yoko_Ono.html\">fromthebookshelf.com\/Gary_Shapiros_From_The_Bookshelf\/Gary_Shapiros_From_the_Bookshelf\/Entries\/2012\/12\/2_Lisa_Carver_on_Yoko_Ono.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Write up in The New York Times for <I><B>REACHING OUT WITH NO HANDS<\/I><\/B>: <\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/19\/yoko-ono-chunky-bars-and-getting-married-on-the-zipper-a-q-a-with-lisa-carver\/?smid=fb-share\">6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/19\/yoko-ono-chunky-bars-and-getting-married-on-the-zipper-a-q-a-with-lisa-carver\/?smid=fb-share<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Book excerpt in The New York Times:<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/21\/magazine\/how-i-learned-to-love-yoko-ono.html?smid=fb-share&#038;_r=1&#038;\">nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/21\/magazine\/how-i-learned-to-love-yoko-ono.html?smid=fb-share&#038;_r=1&#038;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Books] Reaching Out With No Hands: Reconsidering Yoko Ono Tweet by Lisa Carver, from Backbeat Books, $18.99, biography, 5&#215;7&#8243; (approx) hardcover with dust jacket, 154 pages, 2012, backbeatbooks.com book review by Reviewer Rob In 1994 or 95 was weaning off of being the drunk nightclub photographer at Revolt in Style magazine because I had a habit of shooting nude photos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[598,606,573,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-lifestytle","category-music","category-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7405,"url":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2012\/10\/25\/lisa-carver-performing-in-san-diego\/","url_meta":{"origin":8506,"position":0},"title":"Lisa Carver Performing in San Diego","author":"Reviewer Rob","date":"October 25, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Lisa Carver will be at Grenier Piccard this Sunday eveningTweet In downtown San Diego, this Sunday night, the one and only ... 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