A Strange Woman tells of a woman’s love affair with life, though it is a life that existed before her and will exist long after.
The Copenhagen Trilogy – Tove Ditlevsen
Critics reading Tove Ditlevsen’s work will dutifully make reference to her working-class roots, but seem unwilling to consider what impact these experiences might have had on her as a young writer.
Poetry Against All – Johannes Göransson
Johannes Göransson’s Poetry Against All, like Herzog’s diaries, moves beyond the realm of cataloging personal experience, becoming its own work, even if created in the shadow of another.
Larissa Pham’s collection boldly reinterprets the memoir-essay genre by accompanying her stories of love with ekphratic commentary on the visual, aural, and verbal language of intimacy.
Rated RX: Sheree Rose with and after Bob Flanagan – Yetta Howard (Ed.)
Anyone working bravely, and transgressively, across forms in this way, and with as such a sustained career as Sheree Rose, may have to deal with pop radio versions of their craft. More often than not, the source artist must be intentionally sought out.
Tight Little Vocal Cords – Loie Rawding
What, then, distinguishes such a novel as TIGHT LITTLE VOCAL CORDS from the very many novels — going back to the very beginning of the form — that assimilate “other” modes of writing
Dark Satellites – Clemens Meyer
Meyer’s revue of misfits, dreamers, guards, clerks, and cleaners are not at pains to identify with the reality they don’t feel invited to participate in — something their wild whims and delusions show us on every page.
Festivals turn writers into characters, Mona explains. Writers arrive as the creator of possibilities and worlds, but they depart as puppets, functionaries for a plot. Or worse, as flora and fauna for the landscape.
Asylum Road is a gripping blend of character study and psychological thriller that reads like a macabre love letter to a generation that was told the fairy tale version of globalization only to find that it ends anything but happily.
Points of Attack – Mark de Silva
These essays or pieces or feuilletons or Barthesian mythologies — whatever you want to call them — are the correct form for our age