A series of 13 "routes", with occasional sidetrips, each originating in a letter:
ROUTE U Rub Not seen since page one? "There's the erase." He broke his collar-bone swimming with an abandoned baby. A pal; an ode. A Mr. and Mrs. Van Winkle died in their sleep last night in a four alarm blaze which destroyed their home...This beginning is typical of the work in this compelling book: coherent sentences juxtaposed often with little in the way of "logical" discursive relationship. The logic, however, lies in a subjective linking: one thing suggesting another, sometimes by the sound of words, sometimes by conceptual opposition. At other times one feels that perhaps a paragraph of exposition has been removed between sentences. There is a kind of deadpan surface to these texts which does not prevent them from being quite humorous at times; or eerie, or desperate, or sarcastic, or...--John M. Bennett
This review originally appeared in TapRoot Reviews #2,
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