Death Styles Letters from the Black Ark described as Hypnogogic Word Playing

described as Hypnogogic Word Playing in Reporters' Notebooks which further expand our map of Bernadette Mayer's groundbreaking works of writing consciousness

A tango (like a marriage) is something you have to dance to the end

from the celebrated poet

and stories that ricochet off convention in a visionary and daring response to personal and national trauma

Death Styles Letters from the Black Ark described as Hypnogogic Word PlayingJoyelle McSweeney In this follow up to her award winning collection, Toxicon and Arachne, Joyelle McSweeney proposes a link between style and survival, even in the gravest of circumstances. Setting herself the task of writing a poem a day and accepting a single icon as her starting point, however unlikelyRiver Phoenix, Mary Magdalene, a backyard skunkMcSweeney follows each inspiration to the point of exhaustion and makes it through each difficult day.