Mongrel empire press aug 2014 (2 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Streets As Elsewhere is where everything and everyone is absorbed by the place, where 'This empty house listens to its landscape'; 'Dust as it is seen is swept inwards/ as a dream at noon.' The inhabitants are as discarnate as those in Pedro Paramo, '.a woman walking up the dusty road. / Straight uphill.' '.wild bees in a memory of women stretching fabric.' The sound tunes to its surrounds-crows in the afternoon, April thunder, crickets-and to smells of overcoats in rain, cognac and persimmons. A subtle disquietude attaches to a sense of belonging; a strange magnetism alleviates an equally potent sense of estrangement. So much braided hair, so much so much dust, so much rain. J.L. Jacobs has conjured a language for her distinctive world. The poems linger and beckon. The silvered reader enters from behind the mirror. The book tenders a strange exaltation. -C.D. Wright.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - James Murray's The Long Rifle Season is a collection of stories both historical and contemporary. Some of the stories could be described as revisionist westerns, others as character studies or as literary sociological explorations of the past and present of Indian Territory in its many incarnations. There is no doubt that The Long Rifle Season stands among the best of the grit lit / rough South genre: fatalistic in humor, devoid of romanticism, anti-nostalgic, unwaveringly truthful, deeply authentic.…