Minerva – Keila Vall de la Ville
Vall de la Ville writes about Venezuela’s decline beautifully and honestly, just as she writes about Minerva’s changing identity as an immigrant
Concentric Macroscope – Kelly Krumrie
Geometry creates a concentric circle, but language splinters.
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