SEWING HER HAND TO THE FACE OF THE FLEETING, Liz Brennan

SEWING HER HAND TO THE FACE OF THE FLEETING

Liz Brennan

Publisher: Quale Press
PubDate: 1/1/1998
ISBN: 9780965616133
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price: $4.00
Quantity Available: 9
Pages: 28
 

Short fiction chapbook. These 22 short short stories or medium-length prose poems are disquieting (one is actually titled The Voice of Disquiet) in the most productive sense, fleeting, as the title of the chapbook suggests, yet strangely persistent in the way they press their images upon the mind of the reader. Sewing her hand to the face of the fleeting leaves the blank stare of her blind spot to be stumbled upon by all she is not prepared to gently curve around. This sends her thin partition of possibility reaching for the security of dilemma, since to say what lies on her mind only serves to unravel what she's spent her lifetime observing. (title story, entire) We are all implicated in the you, the them, the he and the she that Brennan invokes; after reading this excellent chapbook, we are suddenly aware of inhabiting a world in which It is all a chaos of nothing. (from The Fortunate This)