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Posted by jonfrankel on Oct 30, 2020 in Fiction | 0 comments

sinclair/richardson

This is the review of Dorothy Richardson’s novel Pilgrimage, published in the Egoist by May Sinclair in 1918. At the time Richardson had only written the first...

Posted by jonfrankel on Oct 27, 2020 in Fiction, Novels and Novelists | 2 comments

may sinclair

Recently I stumbled on the English author May Sinclair (1863-1946) in the back pages of Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage. My copy of Pilgrimage is published by Virago,...

Posted by jonfrankel on Apr 27, 2020 in Fiction, Poetry | 0 comments

CROWDS

How easily their hands went in the air In the town we thought they were waving At first a few rolled to the sand Like beach bathers stunned in the waves Recumbent they...

Posted by jonfrankel on Jan 27, 2020 in Fiction, ISLE OF DOGS, Sci Fi Noir | 0 comments

work in progress

A jagged, liver-colored scar cleaved Yrmela’s cheek from her ear to the corner of her mouth. It was the worst of the scars and Sybil Cane was saving it up for something...

Posted by jonfrankel on Apr 9, 2018 in Marianne Hauser, Poetry | 2 comments

ICU

ICU A place lit by glacial dynamite A palace built of tears. The glass weeps rain And the walls are full of sorrow. A castle-derelict of undone duty The exasperating...

Posted by jonfrankel on Feb 7, 2018 in Fiction, Novels and Novelists | 1 comment

A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER

I just finished two books, The Social Origins of Language, a book of essays responding to the work of Robert M. Seyfarth and Dorothy L. Cheney, edited and introduced by...

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