false 22 16 13 true 6003272 read 3 true 1493525 currently-reading 0 true 1493524 to-read http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63279421 to: Xing (Paperback) by Ron Silliman
Silliman's Xing, modest in length only, is good poetry. I'd have to reach for Basho to find something comparable in the way it balances the work of writing and that difficulty and at the same time a seemingly effortless play. I'd read Xing when it was first published by Meow Press, and this spring via the more recent Factory School edition enroute from Manhattan to Main Street, Queens, or was it the other way around? An absorbing & lovely experience of being in the world. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49759706 to: Pact (Paperback) by Gil Ott
Read this book. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49759347 to: Color of Darkness by James Purdy
What I learned: There's a line from Purdy's work to Gil Ott's ~Pact~ I hadn't realized. This is the real noir fiction. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49564000 to: Talking Out of School (American Literature) by Kass Fleisher
A recent title in Dalkey Archive's American Literature Series. The publisher's back cover copy begins this way: "The bitterly funny memoir reads like an expose of the power structures in America's higher-education system: who's got it, how they're abusing it, what everyone else is willing to do to get it, and the social cost of doing educational business this way." Of course, or following the course of Fleisher's mind and heart is always much more than promotional language can convey. She's one of the really interesting great ones. [close:] ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49564511 to: The Last Novel (Paperback) by David Markson
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