OK, I really like this. Asking for more by Sarah Manguso. Makes me think of Yvor Winters – clanging steel and rough-riding self-discipline even when it really hurts, but also with a grim funny edge to it. I hope to be nearly crucified is a line to die for, in my view, and so is Thank you for leaving me this whole world to go mad in, and not just because it ends on a wicked preposition. I have no idea who Sarah Manguso is, but I think I am may be going to find out. My one gripe is S1L3 – To live because I don’t want to has a high ick factor for me, cloying and blatant and in-your-face and as such at odds with the rest.
Yes, I know. I need a grading system. This one would get quite a few stars or check-marks or bias-points, or whatever.
