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Cure All
by
Kim Parko
Kim Parko’s Cure All is the first-ever out-of-competition manuscript selected for publication at Caketrain. In this collection of linked vignettes, the preoccupations that have driven Parko’s years of written invention—crises of identity, parallelisms, anthropomorphism, transformative horror, epistles, flights of poesy, philosophical interrogations, psychic penetralia—all...more
Paperback, 122 pages
Published
February 15th 2010
by Caketrain Press
(first published 2010)
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4 Stars - Strongly Recommended to readers who appreciate vivid imagery and stories detailing with things you would never have imagined on your own
Pgs: 119
Publisher: CakeTrain
A revolver pining for a light bulb can only lead in disaster. A woman allows a spider to eat her face as a form of beauty treatment. Reflections that detach themselves from their reflectees.
The flash fiction contained within Kim Parko's Cure All infiltrates your brain like a fever dream....more
Read 10/9/12 - 10/10/12
4 Stars - Strongly Recommended to readers who appreciate vivid imagery and stories detailing with things you would never have imagined on your own
Pgs: 119
Publisher: CakeTrain
A revolver pining for a light bulb can only lead in disaster. A woman allows a spider to eat her face as a form of beauty treatment. Reflections that detach themselves from their reflectees.
The flash fiction contained within Kim Parko's Cure All infiltrates your brain like a fever dream....more
This book is about language and sadness, oftentimes the sadness of language. The words are roads to impossible destinations, a thousand detours in only a fraction of that many pages. It is a metaphor to describe metaphors. If you're tired of what you already know, then it is, most importantly, the panacea of the title.
Finished this book over the course of an afternoon spent tucked away in a small wooden closet. How does Kim Parko know what she knows? There's an uncanny precision and logic to Parko's absurd methods. A book to dream about.
To call these pieces unique isn't enough. With her fractured shards of advice, sweet little nightmares, tunneled eyes and sprouted scales, Kim Parko presents a twisting puzzle of fire blights and lonely spines.
The surreal images in this captivating book transport you to a dream-like world that is totally unique and mind-bending. This is a highly original work that is both beautiful and frightening.
May 21, 2012
Billyjane Marinkovich
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http://www.caketrain.org/pdf/cureall.pdf
from what i saw here very interesting read
from what i saw here very interesting read
Some books glare out imagination over a mechanical creative process. This is pure imagination.
wondrous. Cure All is the cure-all for those desperate for an overflowing bath of genuinely wow-worthy, visually-loaded language. beauty, delight, wonder, curiosity--whoever reads Cure All can't deny that this book will have you experiencing it all. I feel comfortable calling it the amuse-bouche, in the literal sense, of literature. If you want to amuse not just your taste buds, but all of your senses, read this book.
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