Why aren’t more reviews of experimental literature commensurately experimental in form?
The Disappearing Act – Maria Stepanova
Hundreds of eyes are looking at her, seeing not the novelist but some other unknown person
Lola the Interpreter – Lyn Hejinian
In Hejinian’s syntax of personhood within and around community, the self fits in only precariously among others.
Within each coupledom, clothing represents a tug of war for power
whitewards – Katarína Kucbelová
Who wants to simply disappear, no longer an individual but only an undefined part of some larger, homogenous body?
Letters to Kafka – Christina Estima
It’s a blaze of an affair, two intelligent people who deal with words
My Dreadful Body – Egana Djabbarova
For Djabbarova, the body functions as a palimpsest of symbols
The characters are diffuse, performing something of a vanishing act
Berceuse Parish – Burnside Soleil
The dance of these poems keeps a keen rhythm
The Harmattan Winds — Sylvain Trudel, Tr. from the French by Donald Winkler
So much time inside such a limited subjectivity also made me question my own. Was I right to read Hugues as pathological, even psychopathic?
Letters to Kafka – Christina Estima
It’s a blaze of an affair, two intelligent people who deal with words
My Dreadful Body – Egana Djabbarova
For Djabbarova, the body functions as a palimpsest of symbols
The Disappearing Act – Maria Stepanova
Hundreds of eyes are looking at her, seeing not the novelist but some other unknown person
Within each coupledom, clothing represents a tug of war for power
Ṣẹ̀gílọlà Arómirẹ́ Ògìdán – Àrẹ̀mọ Yusuf Àlàbí Balógun
Her anger lives in the syntax, in sentences that run long, breathless, or suddenly halt.
The Porno President – Bruna Kalil Othero
“Tits or ass?” Othero’s novel urges us to consider this question in today’s political landscape