SQUARE DANCING AT THE ASYLUM: Nouveau Noir Flash Fiction
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (764 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073HQZ2F8 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 452 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Square Dancing at the Asylum is beautiful even when it turns angular and confrontative. Even the names of the books recited in order suggest something more than the naming of sections in a collection: Desire, The Burbs, Confinement, Creature Comforts, Slaughterhouse Flies, Notes From the Front Line, and Nothing Ever Changes. I know what reaches me, and what changes me. Instead, each piece is clearly the crystallized result of powerfully and passionately compressing every meaningful thought and syllable into almost no space, giving meaning so concentrated it is dizzying. Prose poems have been around for at least 150 years. Bean, MAUI WEEKLY . The major characters all gunning for you include a lifelong mental patient, cannibals, an abusive father, a narcissist mo
"Square Dancing Into My Heart" according to Karen Force. As with all of Kirby's books, this one is another winner. I really enjoy his familial stories.
. Kirby Wright was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is a graduate of Punahou School in Honolulu and the University of California at San Diego. Wright has been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes and is a past recipient of the Honolulu Weekly Nonfiction Award, the Jodi Stutz Memorial Prize in Poetry, the Ann Fields Poetry Prize, the Academy of American Poets Award,
Dadio and June Spoon have created their own asylum in the burbs, one in which they 'incarcerate' their children within the confines of the home through guilt control, paternal manipulation, money, and demands bordering on the insane.. This collection of Kafkaesque miniatures offers a terrifying vision of the Worcester asylum where the writer's uncle spent most of his adult life. The asylum theme zips into overdrive in a series of sometimes darkly comic flashes threaded throughout the book