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Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Winner of the 2015 Essay Collection Competition, Selected by Wayne Koestenbaum.
Rarely have I come across tenderness, venom, and fire held so intimately, so exquisitely, as in Lily Hoangs A BESTIARY. This book would be impressive enough as a collection of finely-forged fragments, but as it weaves itself into an even more impressive whole, my hat came off. Lily Hoang writes like she has nothing to lose and everything at Nelson
A BESTIARY is a work of great subtlety, precision, intelligence, daring, and emotive keenness. It seems completely contemporary (by which I mean that it is unlike anything Ive read and that it makes me want to change my own writerly procedures). With head-long, reckless, improvisatory gestures, Lily Hoang prompts us to rethink what literature today can dare to aspire to. Her intellectually magnanimous books position on the threshold between recognizable literature and some other vanguard form of performance/utterance made me feel happy and stimulated and dizzy (in a rapturous way) while I was reading Koestenbaum
The most perfect use of fragmentation, myth, language, fairytale, and terrible beauty that I have ever seen in my life. Im swooning. My faith in what writing can be has been Yuknavitch
Author: Lily Hoang
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 04/01/2016
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780996316743
Language: English
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