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Book Review The Lighthouse Road by Peter Geye Unbridled Books, October 2012 Reviewed by Jarret Middleton The Collagist, Issue 44, March 2013 Thea, a young Norwegian immigrant, braves the arduous Atlantic passage on the tri-masted steamship Thingvalla to begin a new life in the rough and miserly camp of Gunflint, Minnesota. Her emigration...
CITY ARTS FESTIVAL – LIT CRAWL SCHEDULE Seattle Lit Crawl Public Event · By Lit Crawl Seattle Thursday, October 18, 2012 5:00pm until 10:00pm in PDT Seattle, WA It’s a bar crawl with literature—where hundreds of literati get drunk on words! On the first official night of City Arts Fest, Thursday, October 18th, Lit Crawl...
Book Review Understories by Tim Horvath Belleveue Literary Press, May 2012 192 pages / $14.95 Buy from Amazon Reviewed by Jarret Middleton HTMLGIANT Understories rises and falls in the geography of an infinitely complex urban landscape. The book maps a city made up of cities. Narratives made of indirect, minor narratives; stories within stories....
Smoking With Jarret Middleton by Tim Horvath Art by Claire Callister In parts this story recalled for me nothing so much as William Styron’s Darkness Visible, his memoir of depression, in which he describes the “storm of murk” of his experience. Styron’s language is much plainer, though, than your tracing of the “blackened bottom.”...
Book Review My Only Wife Jac Jemc Dzanc Books, 2012 194 Pages | Buy Now Reviewed by Jarret Middleton Smalldoggies Magazine “Through the portal of these honed, singular images we see the wife at once sweet and then quickly vicious. As the book moves on, it is this cruelty that emerges like a path...
We Haven’t Seen You In Ages - Jarret Middleton SmokeLong Quarterly | Issue 36 | June 2012 “This account of wreckage and its aftermath has no access to what happened, only the dirtied flesh of evidence after-the-fact. I cannot say what life was like before the cycle quickened and flashed out true hells,...
An Dantomine Eerly by Jarret Middleton Description You are invited to witness Dallin’s passage into death. The ailing poet distantly recalls his own life through the language of a damaged psyche and the symbols of a spirit upended by violent transformation. In this, memories abound: an old, wind beaten house where a...