From Publishers Weekly
Moschovakis's playfully grim debut, a gathering of smart, sometimes puzzling poetic sequences, swears allegiance to fragments, open-ended inquiries, sudden juxtapositions and projects linked to analytic philosophy. The first sequence, "Thought Experiment," consists of slightly flirtatious short blocks of prose: "With progress, not only earthquakes but kisses will be predicted." Her last two, "Winter Songs" and the excellent "The Dead Man Looks into His Own Dead Ear," explore self-alienation and mourning in quirky, curt lines, distorting grammar as she goes: "Coiling around a stone/ in the posture of sleep/ I is getting wakier." Of the four sequences in between, the strongest, "The Blue Book," piles up single-line sentences as it vamps on queries from Ludwig Wittgenstein: "A language changes in appearances as I learn to decipher its characters." Moschovakis, an editor at Ugly Duckling Presse, has crafted a mix of sparkling moments and baffling structures; her first sortie of philosophical investigations promises much more to come.
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About the Author
The daughter of two mathematical logicians, Anna Moschovakis was raised in L.A, studied philosophy and French at UC Berkeley and the Sorbonne. MA, Bard and she is in the PhD program at CUNY while working as an editor at ESPN, and Ugly Duckling Presse, adjuct professoring at Queens College and performing in the rock band SeaFoxx.
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