Death Styles Letters from the Black Ark Micha Hamel

Micha Hamel

This brilliant arrangement of essays

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

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

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

Death Styles Letters from the Black Ark Micha HamelJoyelle 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.