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Once Upon a Time Machine ed. by Andrew Carl (review)

Once Upon a Time Machine ed. by Andrew Carl (review) refraction of other voices, including the voices of the dead, is offered as a strategy to arrest the grasping of the illusory that writing seems to compel. In the end, these poems are not ghosted by absence, but by what persistence ("the drama of my going on") means when the persistence, or the "going on," is singular and put in service of the "industry" of creating poems that attempt, and sometimes fail, "not to grasp." These are difficult, beautiful, poems that reward the careful tracing of their bare, but visible, signs.h Andrew Carl, ed. Once Upon a Time Machine. Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse, 2012, 426p. Mark W. Woodring Independent Scholar It is a bit difficult to examine a book like Once Upon a Time Machine without discussing the art which comprises much of the storytelling. The rise of the graphic novel format has added a level of intricacy to book review that may necessitate the inclusion of somewhat unusual observations by the reviewer, as the literary value of an image is often vastly different from the written word. However, when the two work in concert, wonderful things can happen for the reader. With that somewhat cryptic disclaimer out http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

Once Upon a Time Machine ed. by Andrew Carl (review)

Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature , Volume 68 (1) – Jun 17, 2014

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Abstract

refraction of other voices, including the voices of the dead, is offered as a strategy to arrest the grasping of the illusory that writing seems to compel. In the end, these poems are not ghosted by absence, but by what persistence ("the drama of my going on") means when the persistence, or the "going on," is singular and put in service of the "industry" of creating poems that attempt, and sometimes fail, "not to grasp." These are difficult, beautiful, poems that reward the careful tracing of their bare, but visible, signs.h Andrew Carl, ed. Once Upon a Time Machine. Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse, 2012, 426p. Mark W. Woodring Independent Scholar It is a bit difficult to examine a book like Once Upon a Time Machine without discussing the art which comprises much of the storytelling. The rise of the graphic novel format has added a level of intricacy to book review that may necessitate the inclusion of somewhat unusual observations by the reviewer, as the literary value of an image is often vastly different from the written word. However, when the two work in concert, wonderful things can happen for the reader. With that somewhat cryptic disclaimer out

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Published: Jun 17, 2014

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