The Vietnam Project is comprised of 3 panels. The first of these is a novel I began years ago, about a grad student who hallucinates an alternate history of the American War with Vietnam. I am hoping to actually complete this novel one day. Part of that will be posting excerpts from books I’m reading [...]
History
First it was the fragment singing
its broken oratorio against
the orotund and fragrant whole.
We were in pieces in the choir
and the ear was thrilled
to hear the opus sung entirely
by vagrant tenors and counter tenors
sopranos perched on swing sets.
Not like sunsets of purple wracks
dragging curtains across the underworld
and rain in another county, rumoured thunder,
our ruins [...]
The Wovel
On Morning Edition today there was a piece on The Wovel, an audience plotted web novel. It is also a wheeled snow shovel, a device (judging by the number of Google hits), that is more familiar to people than the evolving literary form. The story presented it as an innovation, and a way for [...]
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Monozone was deep into panic. Beneath the zippered, gridlocked surface, under stockings, panty shields and contact lenses, inside the ironed shirt, the benzedrine suit jacket and gold crown, brushed into the rug, pinned up for the wig, tanned and henna’d, straightened, permed and dreadlocked panic surged and raged and churned and lifted till every [...]
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