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5.0 out of 5 stars
Stunning, disturbing, stunned and beautiful,
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This review is from: Five Days in the Electric Chair (Paperback)
Michael's work has often hung on, and to, the fringes of experience, and perhaps _Five Days in the Electric Chair_ is his ultimate expression of language and its limits. The "voice" of the book's narrator is as tortured as the memories of a life the narrator is trying to remember/recall as well as the experience of what it means to die repeatedly, almost endlessly. Often dark, _Five Days in the Electric Chair_ is oddly beautiful in its sparse, almost spartan, arrangement of memory and experience as understood, or can be understood, in language. Or, in the words of the narrator:I am speaking sounds until I This "sudden language" of mourning, love, loss, life, and memory are the bonds that hold one together in the face of death, in the face of dying. Michael Blitz hurls us into the moment where memory crystalizes in the vein: where everything matters because it verges on not mattering any longer. Masterfully crafted and yet almost ridiculous in its premise, _Five Days..._ is a fascinating and poignant work.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Truly strange, truly wonderful,
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This review is from: Five Days in the Electric Chair (Paperback)
I had to read this book twice to realize that it had somehow affected my pulse rate. It is a peculiar book of poems-- at least I think they are separate poems. They all come together as one reads the book, and the cumulative images become more and more provocative. The figure in the electric chair agonizes over "his" predicament. But more significant is "his" series of meditations on the preposterous situation "he" is in. He faces death, his own terror, but he also faces the complete inadequacy of his language in trying to convey anything close to his experience. I don't know-- readers will love this book, I suspect, but they may not be sure why! I think I am going to reread it, now, to unravel more of these intriguing threads.
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