Fiction. Operating somewhere between fiction and poetry, biography and theory, the stories in ATTEMPTS AT A LIFE do what lively stories do best, creating worlds of possibility, worlds filled with surprises. Like the "experiments in found movement" one character conducts (in "Everybody's Autobiography"), Dutton's stories find movement wherever they turn, each sentence a small explosion of images and anthems and odd juxtapositions. This is writing in which the imagination (both writer's and reader's) is capable of producing almost anything at any moment, from a shiny penny to an alien metropolis, a burning village to a bright green bird. "Danielle Dutton's stories remind me of those alluring puzzles where the pool is overflowing and emptying at the same time. Dutton's answer? That the self is a rush of the languages of storytelling and moments of helpless intimacy"--Robert Gluck.

Author City: URBANA, IL USA

Danielle Dutton is is the author of S P R A W L (Siglio Press, 2010) and ATTEMPTS AT A LIFE (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2007), and editor of Dorothy, a publishing project. An instructor in the MFA program at Naropa's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, she is also the book designer at Dalkey Archive Press. She was born and raised in California and now lives with her husband and son in Illinois.

Reviews and Other Links
http://dogmatika.com/dm/books_more.php?id=3347_0_3_0_M
http://www.fascicle.com/issue03/essays/dutton1.htm
http://www.bookslut.com/features/2007_04_010916.php
http://artvoice.com/issues/v6n21/book_reviews/attempts_at_a_life
http://octopusmagazine.com/issue09/peterson.htm
http://coldfrontmag.com/reviews/attempts-at-a-life