Juice
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (578 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0932716555 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 63 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A Seminal Work MUHLSTEIN Sick of memoirs, confessional types,the overtly quiet, and renegade ids posturing in doorways????? If you have any sense of vision then you must pick up this text and breathe it in . Better than the ocean at dawn .simply refreshing and smart.
Her books include NEWCOMER CAN'T SWIM (Kelsey Street Press, 2007), A PICTURE-FEELING (Roof Books, 2005), THE ACTIVIST (Krupskaya, 2003), JUICE (Kelsey Street Press, 2000), NOT RIGHT NOW (Second Story Books, 1998), and Arlem (Idiom Books, 1996). . A novella Event Factory is forthcoming from Dorothy, a publishing project in fall 2010. Renee Gladman lives in Boston, Massachusettes, where she publishes Leon Works, a press for experimental fiction and cross-genre writing. She
JUICE describes a world where seemingly minor obsessions and details (like the narrator's almost random preference for juice) can structure and develop an entire story, down to its tone and style. Poetry. African American Studies. As her narrator puts it: "So far it has been sex and leaves that keep me alive.". Gladman wields an idiosyncratic skill with description and characters that has drawn praise and attention from her contemporaries
In "No Through Street," the narrator's sister wins fame for painting a series of functional but nonstandard street signs, setting off a series of oblique meditations on race, intimate relationships ("if this woman is the directionalist whom everyone knows about, who is my sister?") and cultural capital. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.. Though one wishes at times for a more vividly descriptive language or more concentrated elaboration of the ideas, this is a rich and unusual collection, like an alien codex from a culture in one's own backyard. From Publis