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Norman Lock: “Fall Back to Then”
describe one formal realization or change you made during the writing of this poem. The organization of the lines, which took shape spontaneously, is likely to have been influenced by my intensive reading in the poetry of the objectivists—Lorine Neidecker, William Carlos Williams, Carl Rakosi, George Oppen—and (although not of that movement) the verse of Larry Eigner. Their poems are shaped and cadenced objects on the page.
Seltsames Kammerspiel: Apokalyptische Komödie in dunkler Wohnung
Machtspiele gegen das Böse? Harriet und Harry versuchen herauszufinden, warum sie in der unbekannten Wohnung gelandet sind, aus der es offenbar kein Entrinnen gibt. Nach und nach wird deutlich, dass sie gegen "das Böse" ausgesagt und nun in einer Art Zeugenschutzprogramm eine andere Identität bekommen haben. Aber die Belohnung, die ihnen für ihre mutige Aussage versprochen wurde, ist enttäuschend.
Five works of historical fiction to read this summer
Dorothy’s Auntie Em, a traumatized Civil War veteran and a shy artist with a secret are some of the wonderful characters in this summer’s noteworthy historical novels. These creative tales reimagine historical and literary moments, adding new dimensions, pondering, “What if?” By Hazel Gaynor Who was Auntie Em before her unforgettable appearance in L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”? Gaynor envisions the iconic character’s adolescence and married life in this creative novel.
EDEN’S CLOCK | Kirkus Reviews
A thrilling, episodic novel of big ideas and national traumas. A Civil War veteran makes a circuitous trip to San Francisco on the eve of a disaster in the final standalone volume in Lock’s American Novels series. When Frederick Heigold begins his tale of an unlikely cross-country sojourn, the year is 1906 and his intended audience is Jack London, who’s sitting at the table next to his at a hotel bar.
Volume XCII, No 11
Acclaimed science fiction writer Jeff VanderMeer talks about his new book, Absolution, in this special issue.
THE ICE HARP | Kirkus Reviews
by Norman Lock ‧ An elegiac, powerful book about a thinker’s limitations. An aging Ralph Waldo Emerson grapples with an ethical dilemma. Over the last decade, the stylistic range and subtle connections on display in Lock’s American Novels cycle have afforded many pleasures. This latest installment focuses on Ralph Waldo Emerson, opening two and a half years before his death.
Volume XCI, No 9
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Our Week in Reviews: 9/3/22
A recap of the books we’ve spotlighted in the past few days. The Godmother: Murder, Vengeance, and the Bloody Struggle of Mafia Women by Barbie Latza Nadeau (Penguin Books). Reviewed by Eric Dezenhall. “Nadeau makes clear with extensive documentation that female clan bosses are no less brutal than their masculine counterparts.
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Voices in the Dead House: A Novel
Norman Lock’s Voices in the Dead House is a unique look at the Civil War and its era through the eyes of two beloved literary figures: Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott. Lock’s finely drawn characters reveal the despair and uncertainty of the time, the brutality of war, the limitations of medicine, and the butchering of men in, as the fictionalized Alcott puts it, “the United States of pain and suffering.” It’s 1863, and Lincoln has just signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
Action Scenes, Embodied Perception, and Consecution
Hi friends, My July was thankfully low-key, spent making the most of the lull midway through my summer break: I put in some vacation time on a Michigan beach, worked on my new novel, read more books than in any other month this year. Now it’s August, which means it’s time to finalize syllabi for the fall.
The Age of Flesh and Fire, by Norman Lock
“More bird, Goodman Page?” asked the stout Master Buxton as he sawed a leg from a goose sitting, solemn and headless, on a silver platter. Evidently, the Buxtons stood too high in Salem society for plain pewter. Isaac chewed on a thigh and anticipated—his mind growing torpid—a good night’s sleep on a mattress stuffed with feathers having once belonged to the goose’s kith or kin. John Buxton was not one of those stringy Christians whose scowling faces could spoil meat and sour milk.
Review | Norman Lock’s ‘American Follies’ mines America’s flawed past for dazzling fiction
Our national history and literature are Norman Lock’s playground in his dazzling series, “The American Novels.” Mind you, his purpose is deadly serious: “to discover . . . the causes and beginnings of certain maleficent qualities in the American character,” as he puts it. And Lock doesn’t stint on the grim particulars. In the series’s first book, a riff on “Huckleberry Finn” that takes place in 1960, Louisiana racists lynch Jim.
Washington Independent Review of Books
When Lutheran Minister Robert Winter meets young Emily Dickinson at her botany lesson, he is instantly smitten. Later, he woos her and asks if she might like to leave Amherst and travel with him across the country. She replies that she is happier to comply with her father’s wishes that she never marry. “I fear my muse would balk,” she says. So, Winter falls into a long fascination and correspondence with her.
The Wreckage of Eden
When U.S. Army chaplain Robert Winter first meets Emily Dickinson, he is fascinated by the brilliance of the strange girl immersed in her botany lessons. She will become his confidante, obsession, and muse over the years as he writes to her of his friendship with the aspiring politician Abraham Lincoln, his encounter with the young newspaperman Samuel Clemens, and his crisis of conscience concerning the radical abolitionist John Brown.
ATTN: Indie Lit Community - “Great 2015 Preview” [list-in-progress]
The Love Book by Nina Solomon (January)Starve the Vulture: A Memoir by Jason Carney (January)We Are All Crew by Bill Landauer (January)The Lost Treasures of R&B: A D Hunter Mystery by Nelson George (February)Loving Donovan by Bernice L.
THE BOY IN HIS WINTER
From the American Novels series , Vol. 1 by Norman Lock ‧ The latest from distinguished elder statesman Lock, winner of the Aga Khan Prize from theParis Review, is an eclectic hybrid of literary appropriation, Zelig-like historical narrative, time-travel tale and old-style picaresque. It's narrated in 2077 by an octogenarian Huckleberry Finn, who meandered down the Mississippi alongside his stalwart friend Jim for 125 years, from 1835 until 1960, remaining miraculously unchanged by time.
Missing Persons - Electric Literature
Missing Persons Norman Lock Share article If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. KARL’S WIFE, LYDIA, WAS NOT THE FIRST person in the city to have disappeared in this way.
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