A few months ago, in April, to be exact, I started a series of posts entitled “A Sentence About a Sentence I Love” with a sentence about one of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s magnificent sentences. This concentration, or, rather, this obsession with the sentence may have come from my, at the time, recent readings of William [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Matthew Kirkpatrick’
Guest Post, by Matthew Kirkpatrick: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Matthew Kirkpatrick, The Recognitions, William Gaddis on May 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played. – William Gaddis, the last line of The Recognitions
Matthew Kirkpatrick’s “Light Without”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Light Without", Matthew Kirkpatrick, Web Conjunctions on December 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Matthew Kirkpatrick has an inventively constructed story (“Light Without”) with some refractive and still oddly lyrical syntax at Web Conjunctions. Some choice bits: She feels best in dim light listening to her parents’ footsteps in the kitchen above invisibly tapping their toes to different silent beats. Her parents are always moving away from one another, [...]