![]() ![]() ![]() These wraiths compel us to examine what appears in our midst, how we acknowledge these appearances and what we accept and disregard. Thompson, Gertrude Stein, and Shelleyboth of themall run through the cerebral cortex of Tim Burton, put in a pill and swallowed whole by. In this compellingly daft, lyrical, and mind-expanding novel we find traces of Sophocles, Lewis Carrol, Vonnegut, the Nabokov of Pale Fire, Hunter S. 2011 More ways to shop: Find an Apple Store or other retailer near you. Susan Slaviero, author of Cyborgia and Selections From The Murder BookĪrlene Ang’s poems are devoted wraiths tracking queries of what does and doesn’t belong, what it means to belong to a place, what is here, what left and what, if anything, will return. Reb Livingston’s literary forbears are legion. Reb Livingston (hymnographer, crier of laments, wry chronicler of blockages, seepages and Thingamabobs) combs the spiritual runes, tunes and ruined stockings that remain after traffic between the sexes. ![]() Ang offers us fragments of the dreams we have forgotten, a glimpse of crows, of rising waters and crashing cars, taking the ephemeral and giving it a startling permanence and solidity. Between these pages, the occult language of commonplace objects will make you squirm and shiver. Arlene Ang's collection, Banned for Life, aims to fix our gaze upon the body-the exposed brain, the voicebox, the swallowed tongue-and does not let us "look away, as if to avoid infection." These poems speak of the always-present threat of erasure via the gun, the knife, and the worm, exposing the violence reflected in unlatched windows, hallway mirrors and glass eyes. ![]()
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