hs This collection is not as good as the previous collection, though it does have slightly more international feel (several stories are translations). Despite the title, there is more than Greek mythology in play here as well. Perhaps because it is sadder, the term that Bernheimer us...
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There is no way I can declare this book as being good. The first poem gave hope and hints of possible greatness forthcoming but the list to follow was nothing short of disappointing. It is not enough to be clever with your words, pretentious even, but they must be in the right place at the right tim...
For the most part these essays of Monson's were so very good. The only reason I couldn't give this book five stars is I had to skip some because of their layouts. But the seven of twelve I did read were fantastic, amazing even, and I highly recommend this book to essay lovers. I write about it in mo...
Not that anyone would give a hoot but I finally did get a correctly described copy of this book from a seller on amazon.com, and for that fact alone I am extremely happy. It is easy to discount the troubles, and even the successes of others, but you won't find any of that here coming from my lips, ...
SO MUCH SNOW COMING DOWNIf the pieces of the whole were mostly "luminous", were somehow made actual as in "galvanized", then the "scrambled"-ness of this editorial "experiment" may have proven to be more successful. Problem for me was I only believed one half of it and the "charge" was not as "spar...
Companion to Other Electricities. It doesn't stun me the way the novel does, but it has similar moments of loveliness (loneliness) and grief.
The cover declares Other Electricities "stories," but I think of it as a story cycle, or a novel in stories. What connects the stories is their location, which is not just a small town in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, but a small town in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in midwinter: snow and ice ...
A collection of essays inspired by things written in library books (and apparently first distributed to readers by putting copies of the essay in the book they were inspired by...makes me wonder if any are still there). The topics are broadly ranging and the examination of the interaction between re...
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