Description
Poetry. "CTHULHU ON LESBOS is a remarkable instance of experimental poetry, as well as a notable addition to Lovecraftiana. David Jalajel collages text selected from Lovecraft's story 'The Call of Cthulhu' into Sapphic stanzas that refract Lovecraft's narrative through non-Euclidean syntax. Horrifying implications rush at the reader between the text's prepositions and their vanished objects. In Lovecraft's story, there is a tension between the narrator's skepticism and his accepting the bizarre claims of the manuscripts he has found. In Jalajel's Sapphics, there is a parallel tension between syntactical sense and the weird suggestions of the phrases cut and shuffled into a classical form."—Gene Doty
Author Bio
David Jalajel is an American poet whose work has appeared in a number of online and print journals, including Shampoo, Recursive Angel, experiential-experimental-literature, and Lynx. He is also the author of Moon Ghazals, published in 2009 by Beard of Bees Press.
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