Publishers Weekly, June 28th, 1999
Dan Farrell. Krupskaya [SPD. dist.], $9 (64p) ISBN 1-928650-01-5
Even at its most spare, the Canadian-born Farrell's prose poetry creates an atmosphere reminiscent of Kafka in its ever-recursive replays of alienating social formulas. Indeed, the poem "K," centering around the narrator's "phone tag" relationship with an ever-ambiguous, eponymous love object, is as taut as short fiction: "So K would call, begin to leave as though a message, then get me. Would K's roommate pass on this message, any? For the while, exchanging mail seemed a way. Letter, number, letter; number, letter, number. Le...
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