As with bated breath I anticipate the January 7 release of Ben Marcus’ newest collection of stories…I sate myself with these two complex tidbits of his alchemical languaging talents, and invite you to swim in them as well…
Ben_Marcus_Notes from the Hospital
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Wow, just read a few pages of ‘Notes…’…very striking imagery that plays havok with reality!
if you have not read him – each book is worth reading word-for-word – his use of language I don’t yet know how to describe.
Camouflaged as no-nonsense, the words pile up, identified,catalogued, measured. You look behind, simply to check the heap, to review. There is a horrible vacuity. There is a revealing. There is a snigger. There is a challenge. A virus, innocent, infecting imagination. Something placed that cannot now be removed. Fiction? A word that the deluded only employ. Chased lines decorating mind, clothing real and unreal, weighing souls with feathers…..
another leak!
http://www.tinhouse.com/magazine/current-issue.html#ben-marcus
Yikes! Literature with a capital L…