Poetry. "Locating itself on the boundary between poetry and fiction, IN THIS ALONE IMPULSE is beautifully replete with silence. One has the sense that the world outside is still there but dampened, and being reordered and reformed by the particular and peculiar logic and structures that these syntactically inventive prose blocks have. And yet, despite the formal concerns these pieces seem remarkably human and remarkably painful, opening up the blank avenues of a lone life. With each reading these pieces change, seeming less and less enigmatic and more insistently full of lyrical human meaning. A marvelous and original sequence; there's really nothing else out there like it"—Brian Evenson.

Author Hometown: NEW YORK, NY USA



About the author: Shya Scanlon is the author of the poetry collection IN THIS ALONE IMPULSE, published by Noemi Press in December 2009, and the novel Forecast, published by Flatmancrooked in 2010. Shya received his MFA from Brown University, where he was awarded the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction.

Reviews:
Jac Jemc at Tarpaulin Sky Reviews
Nicolle Elizabeth in The Brooklyn Rail
Kimberly King Parsons in The Collagist
Angela Stubbs @ DIAGRAM
author site
Joe Sullivan @ Gently Read Literature