minotaurs & other alphabets

By: Nicole Markotic

August 2011
88 pages | ISBN 0-919897-59-2
$15.00

In her dedication to Fred Wah, Nicole Marcotic says, "The prose poem is a mythical beast." Then, in a series of fragmented sentences searching out the permutations of carefully punctuated desire, she invents one such beast after another. For her continually metamorphosing "textual self," stories erupt everywhere, images clash, everything conspires to defer closure. This book is a field of chancy rhetoric, sly wit, sharp puns cutting cliches to the bone. Feminist ironies abound, their language unbound upon the highway of excess: "memory was nippled with desire." Yes. - Douglas Barbour

Reviews

• Review (rob mclennan, The Danforth Review, 11/27/2007)

Other Titles by Nicole Markotic

• Connect the Dots (1994)