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Queen of Terror (Paperback)
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Queen of Terror (Paperback)
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Loot Price R306
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In his fourth collection, Robert Kelly tracks the elusive subject
of all narratives -- the self stripped bare, even -- into ever more
personal territories. The stories (all but one composed in the past
few years) share a common urge to break loose from the constraints
of linear thought, employing cubist technique in the construction
of experience. Gathered here are close to thirty works of varying
style and length, but whether blazing a single page or sensuously
occupying a novella's space, virtually every one tells of odd
encounters with desire. The longest story, "The Red King," lies at
the center of the book, a telling complement at twenty-five years'
remove to the novella "Cities," collected in A Transparent Tree.
Now, a man of gentle omnipotence, perhaps in the winter of life,
reinherits his own body. A second long work, "In Irish America,"
explores the immigrant experience of displacement in thirty-two
prose-poems meant to be read or sung aloud -- a species of
image-filled music. As usual, this new collection will surprise
even Kelly's most assiduous readers.
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