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The Flesh--it binds us eternally,
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This review is from: Because I Was Flesh: The Autobiography of Edward Dahlberg (Paperback)
The first time that I read this book, I really enjoyed it. The second time, I was overwhelmed by its richness and beauty. Dahlberg is able to awaken language with golden ideas of how he sees the world. The story, though painful at times is wonderfully executed. Dahlberg allows his reader to see life as Edward Dahlberg percieved it when he was a child, and then later as a grown man. He's definitely an author who has received little attention, though he deserves so much more. His work, though challenging is fulfilling. And though it is hard to locate, another work of his, "Can These Bones Live," is another wonderfully written work. He takes on all of the writers of his time, and tells them exactly what he thinks about them. Read! Read! Read!
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One of the Greatest Literary Biographies of the 20th century,
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Frank Gado at Union College introduced me to this book 15 years ago or so in a course on biographical literature. Dahlberg was a true prose master and the story he tells of his early life is so wrenching---particularly the last few pages... It seems a terrible shame that this author should be so comprehensively forgetten today. Read this book!
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This is a remarkable book. While I thought the prose was uneven ... at times outstanding, at times merely recondite (that's one of Dahlberg's words) and at times strange, the underlying story is one of the most moving and beautiful around. The source of the beauty may be its honesty. Dahlberg refuses to be a victim or hate people who've done horrible things to him. (He's no chump, either.) It's a tough read, and you may need a dictionary on hand (I did), but a worthwhile experience.
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Kansas City is a vast inland city, and its marvelous river, the Missouri, heats the senses; the maple, alder, elm and cherry trees with which the town abounds are songs of desire, and only the almonds of ancient Palestine can awaken the hungry pores more deeply. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Kansas City is a vast inland city, and its marvelous river, the Missouri, heats the senses; the maple, alder, elm and cherry trees with which the town abounds are songs of desire, and only the almonds of ancient Palestine can awaken the hungry pores more deeply. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Tsu Ben, Kansas City, Tobias Emeritch, Mush Tate, Star Lady Barbershop, Captain Henry Smith, Harry Cohen, Simon Wolkes, New York, Captain Smith, Emma Moneysmith, Lizzie Dalberg, Troost Avenue, West Bottoms, Bonehead Balaam, Cliff Drive, Swope Park, Buena Vista Way, Grand Opera House, Independence Avenue, Irish Micks, Jewish Orphan Asylum, Los Angeles, Main Street, Salvation Army New!
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- Lost & Found: The Adoption Experience by Betty Jean Lifton on page 153, Index (1), and Index (2)
- A Cultural History of the American Novel, 1890-1940: Henry James to William Faulkner by David L. Minter on page 185, Back Matter, and Index
- Modern American Memoirs by Annie Dillard in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Charles Olson: The Allegory of a Poet's Life by Tom Clark in Back Matter
- A Dictionary of Writers and Their Works by Michael Cox on page 328
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