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The Middle Room
Cultural Writing. Memoir. Moxley's detailed and lushly-written memoir is set largely in San Diego and follows her life thus far from childhood to marriage. Consistently focused on poetry and poets, it dwells on the curious ways Americans now find their way into the literary life. "There was a secret force deep in my psyche which, like a Cold War double agent, worked in tan...more
Paperback, 633 pages
Published
January 1st 2007
by Subpress
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A strange book, really, constantly upending expectations, but never straying from a kind of journalistic truth. Hard to fit the messiness of life into such neat prose. This memoir/elegy reads like a very long, extraordinarily well written letter to a friend. A bit Proustian, except without the fiction part. Instead you get a very inside, almost gossipy, look at the life of a gifted poet. And, in the best part of the book, for this reader, inside the poetry circles of UCSD in the nineties. The od...more
Oddly captivating.
Engagingly eccentric. Odd-flavored prose...
a page-turner!!!
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