BOOKS
Wandering Souls in Paradise Lost, by Hélène Rioux, Cormorant Books
by Francine Diot-Layton
07.03.2011
Of the many paradises Hélène Rioux explores in Wandering Souls in Paradise Lost, she omits one: settling down by the fire on a cold winter’s night with a good book. With Wandering Souls – the second of planned tetralogy “Fragments of the World,” the accomplished award-winning poet, translator and novelist (Wandering Souls is her seventh [...]
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BOOKS
Song of the Taxidermist, by Aurian Haller, Goose Lane Editions
by Abby Paige
06.03.2011
Who is more attuned to the details of his art than the taxidermist? Life is not in the body’s overall fact but its odd postures and subtleties of expression, the animating powers of its inhabitant. Despite its Victorian creepiness, there is something naïve and optimistic about taxidermy: its sincere wish to interrupt inevitable decay, to [...]
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