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Brief Lives
Bold and original, this collection is a genre-busting sequence of poetry and prose that confronts the place where mortality meets creativity. Using discontinuous narrative and alphabetical order, the author constructs a series of vignettes mixing biography, autobiography, arcane snippets of information, and meditations on life as performance. Written with great lucidity, this strange and captivating dictionary of fragments offers funny, thoughtful, and moving reflections on life, art, and the unknown.
128 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2006
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August 28, 2017
There are some excellent short pieces in here – I liked 'Disposable', 'The Fallen', 'Family Wisdom' and 'Jesus of Montparnasse' – but alas the book just didn't click for me. It is one of the cases where I recognise and admire the technical sophistication and skill of the writing, but there is no emotional connection.
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