The Narrow Road to the Interior by Kimiko Hahn, 128 pp, $14.95 1. First Impressions This book is both less and more exciting to me than the others I’ve discussed here (The Artist’s Daughter and The Unbearable Heart). It is less exciting because it’s not as penetrable, but it is more exciting because of this [...]
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Kimiko Hahn’s THE NARROW ROAD TO THE INTERIOR
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Carole Maso, Kimiko Hahn, Rachel Blau du Plessis, The Narrow Road to the Interior, Virginia Woolf on April 30, 2011 | 6 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 [...]
Break Every Rule, Part 2
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andrey Tarkovsky, AVA, Break Every Rule, Carole Maso, he American Woman in the Chinese Hat, James Joyce, Jean Luc Godard, Lyric Novel, Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, Virginia Woolf on November 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Whereas the first chapter of Carole Maso’s Break Every Rule (I wrote about it HERE) is a kind of travelogue where cities or towns in Rhode Island, New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts, as well as in France, inspire reveries on home and language, the second chapter unfolds much differently. “Notes of a Lyric Artist [...]
Break Every Rule, Part 1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Break Every Rule, Brian Evenson, Carole Maso, Gary Lutz, The Shelter of the Alphabet, William Gass on October 30, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Carole Maso’s Break Every Rule is a quiet, elegant book of essays. Every sentence here is a gem. Remember that time you walked barefoot across a pebbled beach, marveled at every sea-bitten thing, picked up some bright form that warmed your palm, that had some power in it. That’s what it’s like reading Maso. The [...]
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