John Crouse
John Crouse is one of those writers who are taking prose narrative to
a place it's never begun to think about. Reading his books you trip, stumble
and fall like babies on an experimental drug. The knotted sentences, the
simultaneously shifting tenses, come to resemble a scout's game of cat's
cradle, the strings all magically coming free at the very end with one
tug. His manifesto might be paraphrased as follows, "how to resurrect
to commune/ a past's tongue so the past's not dead/so it can be translated/presently
so what's passed isn't." Crouse is the author of Eventing
(Potes & Poets,1999). An excerpt
from his new book Headlines appears in our spring newsletter; the
entirety will premiere this evening from O Books.
May 18, 2001
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