The art of writing books is about to be discovered
Check out this in-depth blog post by Ken Edwards, justly celebrating RSE's publication this year of four significant works of experimental narrative.
The books in question are John Gilmore's Head of a Man, Richard Makin's Dwelling, Leopold Haas' The Raft and Johan de Wit's Gero Nimo.
The only one I've read, at least in its final form, is Head of a Man, an enthrallingly still suspension-drama in the white space of a Nepalese youth hostel (ish). Gilmore has also written about jazz, and that's something I keep remembering as I take in the structures of this text. Whatever, he uses brackets wonderfully. Here's page 82:
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The books in question are John Gilmore's Head of a Man, Richard Makin's Dwelling, Leopold Haas' The Raft and Johan de Wit's Gero Nimo.
The only one I've read, at least in its final form, is Head of a Man, an enthrallingly still suspension-drama in the white space of a Nepalese youth hostel (ish). Gilmore has also written about jazz, and that's something I keep remembering as I take in the structures of this text. Whatever, he uses brackets wonderfully. Here's page 82:
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Line speaks. Line effaces. Line breaks.
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We met in the passageway. I stood limp, trailing. I stepped aside. In caved chest, a density of breathing. Lead cooled. Nothing moves.
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My body's aching. Held too long. Not the muscle tensed, but the joint contorted.(Monet's stroke.) (Deepened reds.)
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Still the distance across the room, still the floorboards wiped clean, the long lines of pale wood converging in the distance before her.
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