Contemporary Verse Novels continued . . . Okay, so, this is important (and many thanks to A. D. Jameson for pointing this out in my previous post’s comments): A book should probably not be called a Contemporary Verse Novel if it is not written in verse, which is to say, if it is neither lineated [...]
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Contemporary Verse Novels: Robert Walser’s SPEAKING TO THE ROSE and Harry Mathews’s 20 LINES A DAY
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 20 lines a day, China, Cigarettes, Contemporary Verse Novels, Dream, flash fiction, Georges Perec, Harry Mathews, Marie Chaix, Prose Poems, Prose Poetry, Robert Walser, Speaking to the Rose, The Economist on March 19, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Contemporary Verse Novels: Carson, Saterstrom, Conrad, the Roubauds, Boully, and Ruefle
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 20 lines a day, alix cleo roubaud, Anne Carson, Aureole, autobiography of red, CA Conrad, Carole Maso, Contemporary Verse Novels, Essays, Harry Mathews, Jacques Roubaud, Jenny Boully, Mary Ruefle, Memoir, Novel in Verse, Novels, poetry, prose, Robert Walser, Selah Saterstrom, Speaking to the Rose, The Book of Beginnings and Endings, the book of frank, The Most of It, The Pink Institution on March 18, 2011 | 3 Comments »
What is a beginning? What is an ending? What makes a particular grouping of words become a poem or a story or a fiction or a non-fiction? And do these labels, these distinctions, even matter? For anyone who does not know, I’ve been reading and thinking about books that may or may not fit into [...]
“Twenty lines a day, genius or not.”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 20 lines a day, dalkey archive, Harry Mathews, november, stendhal on October 30, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Who’s this guy? What? You don’t know? It’s Stendhal! Who decided at one time or another that he would write “twenty lines a day, genius or not.” If that isn’t genius, I don’t know what is. Some time later, Dalkey Archive author Harry Mathews followed in Stendhal’s footsteps and also decided that he would write [...]