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Fun Literary Finds To Be Found Sooner Or Later
by Benjamin Gottlieb

What these works share, beyond the urgent thrill of their unique expressionistic discoveries, is a wandering and keen playfulness: in several of these works, this playfulness makes stakes at outré absurdity before grounding itself in often piercing emotional depth; in others a distinctively fun, rousing and enveloping prose or poetic style belies the "ur-language reality" of what stirs beneath the alluring words and syntaxes. All weave cocoons around their readers, making, upon their completion, any return to worlds beyond their own quite difficult and daunting.