Elizabeth Cooperman is coeditor (with David Shields) of the anthology Life Is Short-Art Is Shorter and coauthor (with Thomas Walton) of The Last Mosaic. Her work has appeared in Writer’s Chronicle, Seattle Review, 1913: A Journal of Forms, and other journals. She is the art director of PageBoy Magazine.

• Woman with HatHead of a ManHead of a WomanWoman in the StudioWoman with Green StockingsCrouching BeggarFamily of SaltimbanquesYoung Acrobat on a BallAt the Lapin AgileParadeReclining Female Nude under a Pine TreeThe LoversThe Absinthe DrinkerWoman in GrayWoman in a Gray ArmchairHead of a Hurdy-GurdyThe Blue AcrobatThe RacePortrait of the Artist’s MotherPregnant WomanSelf-Portrait at Thirty-SixDwarf DancerMaya with DollPortrait of MayaThe FactoryMaternitéSpringNude in Red StockingsThe BeastLa belle hollandaiseLe compotierNude in a GardenButterfly HunterWoman with Her Hair in a BunJapanese DivanHouse in a GardenInterior SceneThe Blue RoomWoman with Outstretched ArmsTête de mortStill Life with Steer’s SkullShe-GoatSweetsLa cuisineNude with DraperyKidsLittle SunTêteWoman with JewelsWatermelon EatersMa jolieGirl before a MirrorSelf-PortraitYoWoman with a Large HatThe Artist before His CanvasAiming the DeathblowWoman with PearsWoman Washing Her FeetThe FoolWoman beneath the LampSmoke Clouds at VallaurisThe Pigeon with Green PeasContemplationCabinet particulierBird with WormCannibaleThe SighWoman with a CrowTwo Old PeopleBirds in a CageWoman Squatting with ChildThe Old Blind Man’s MealSeated Old ManWoman in a Hat with Pom-Poms and a Printed BlouseWoman with a BonnetNude with Dripping HairWoman PissingBlue NudeStill Life with SkullDeath of NatureLast MomentsLobster and CatWoman Seated in a GardenWoman in a ShawlLa joie de vivre (Pastorale)Still Life with FruitWaitingWoman ReadingWoman Throwing a StoneWoman at the WindowAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Discarded EpigraphsVoices

“This is a fiercely feminist book in the best sense, carving out a space for a female intelligence and decimating certain kinds of male productivity/surety. Cooperman has found her own form and managed to create a remarkable book-howlingly sad, oddly joyous, and persuasively devoted to a wayward/outsider/termite definition of art.”-David Shields “An engaging and distinctive read, Woman Pissing challenges, provokes, and inspires. . . . Woman Pissing refuses to give way to conventional narrative, charts its own path, and evidences the instinctual effort and devotion of a writer keenly aware of just how thin the membrane between art and life can truly be.”-Jericho Parms, author of Lost Wax “A book about the effort to write it, Woman Pissing is a living thing. Cooperman makes art of the effort to make art and manages, in that process, to make art-of art itself. The product is not final but a record of the process-pure pleasure for the reader.”-Kary Wayson, author of The Slip