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Split Series Volume 3: Megan Giddings & Lo Kwa Mei-en
The Most Dangerous Game by Megan Giddings and The Romances by Lo Kwa Mei-en
Megan Giddings's The Most Dangerous Game is a book of pursuits, failed attempts at remembering the capital of Connecticut, ghosts too depressed to haunt, livers being turned into tomato plants, and a coven that takes their David Bowie fandom too far.
Lo Kwa Mei-en's The Romances follows Farah Mendlesohn's definition of romance in Rhetorics of Fantasy, which "functions as a metaphor between the mundane and the fantastic , but also renders palatable what is unpalatable when originating from the hostile." Told through gnarled iterations of the sestina, the villanelle, and heroic couplet forms, Mei-en's romances are a narrative tradition, a genre tag, a complex of cultural expectations that accompany the female body, and, of course, a "good," "old-fashioned" love story.
Megan Giddings's The Most Dangerous Game is a book of pursuits, failed attempts at remembering the capital of Connecticut, ghosts too depressed to haunt, livers being turned into tomato plants, and a coven that takes their David Bowie fandom too far.
Lo Kwa Mei-en's The Romances follows Farah Mendlesohn's definition of romance in Rhetorics of Fantasy, which "functions as a metaphor between the mundane and the fantastic , but also renders palatable what is unpalatable when originating from the hostile." Told through gnarled iterations of the sestina, the villanelle, and heroic couplet forms, Mei-en's romances are a narrative tradition, a genre tag, a complex of cultural expectations that accompany the female body, and, of course, a "good," "old-fashioned" love story.
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December 25, 2019
1. We came / For pleasure and coughed up joy and came back / For terror.
2. I get lightly all by myself, or make out until I zero.
3. Dark heart, vow down. This time, you will / will what's breakneck in you beyond breaking.
4. Hell is a place where we have two mouths / and they are open. Hell is also for beginners / still supple with belief in what deserves.
5. I'm galvanized to a correct death and sung
6. When a blackout is what I am, not what I had, / loving is my nursing a love with just enough stories / to leap from.
7. For the crust / of the world is a cold fold, rendering what's molten / modest
8. Every day is take your knife to work day
9. It was another assumption with its angle / intact. He enjoyed it and waded in. It was a god / falling like a net into its own tributary
10. Maybe I belong to me. The human / factoid may be observable, a comet frozen by joy.
And all of the stories were good, too!
2. I get lightly all by myself, or make out until I zero.
3. Dark heart, vow down. This time, you will / will what's breakneck in you beyond breaking.
4. Hell is a place where we have two mouths / and they are open. Hell is also for beginners / still supple with belief in what deserves.
5. I'm galvanized to a correct death and sung
6. When a blackout is what I am, not what I had, / loving is my nursing a love with just enough stories / to leap from.
7. For the crust / of the world is a cold fold, rendering what's molten / modest
8. Every day is take your knife to work day
9. It was another assumption with its angle / intact. He enjoyed it and waded in. It was a god / falling like a net into its own tributary
10. Maybe I belong to me. The human / factoid may be observable, a comet frozen by joy.
And all of the stories were good, too!
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