SQUARE DANCING AT THE ASYLUM: Nouveau Noir Flash Fiction
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (758 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073HQZ2F8 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 212 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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. BEFORE THE CITY, his first poetry collection, took First Place at the 2003 San Diego Book Awards. His futuristic thriller THE END, MY FRIEND, was released in 2013. He was a Visiting Fellow at the 2009 International Writers Conference in Hong Kong, where he represented the Pacific Rim region of Hawaii. 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 P
This collection of Kafkaesque miniatures offers a terrifying vision of the Worcester asylum where the writer's uncle spent most of his adult life. 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.. The asylum theme zips into overdrive in a series of sometimes darkly comic flashes threaded throughout the book
I know what reaches me, and what changes me. And I don t even try to resist the change in myself Wright effects with these bolts of flashing literature. There are countless other characters that will haunt and taunt you ever after too, including one who will make you think twice about any poems you ever try to write yourself: The Queen of Above Average Poetry. 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. They are very short stories, since that only means each one can be read in basically no time. 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. Oscar Wilde was a master of the form.
Karen Force said Square Dancing Into My Heart. As with all of Kirby's books, this one is another winner. I really enjoy his familial stories.