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Buzzed Books #37: Application for Release from the Dream

09 Tuesday Feb 2016

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Buzzed Books #37 by Amy Watkins

Tony Hoagland’s Application for Release from the Dream

Application for Release from the Dream

I enjoyed the second half of Tony Hoagland’s fifth poetry collection, Application for Release from the Dream (Graywolf Press, 2015), so much that I almost felt guilty for how critical I was of the first half.

Many of the poems in the first half of the book have a thematic counterpart in the second half. For example, one of the poems in the first section is “Special Problems in Vocabulary,” a poem about the limitations of language. It begins:

There is no single particular noun
for the way a friendship,
stretched over time, grows thin,
then one day snaps with a popping sound.

Those lines could almost be an early draft of one of the last poems in the book, “There Is No Word”:

…we have reached the end of a pretense
–though to tell the truth,
what I already am thinking

is that language deserves the credit–
how it will stretch just so much and no further;
how there are some holes it will not cover up…

The book contains several of these pairs–two poems about language, two poems about his father, two poems about divorce. I’m not certain whether the later poems are meant to be further reflections on the themes or answers to the earlier poems. I’m not sure if I would respond differently to the early poems upon a second reading, but in all these pairs, I prefer the second poem.

Both halves of the book contain plenty of Hoagland’s signature humor. He gives the business to corporate tools, uptight academics, clueless suburbanites, his father, his ex-wife, and the fool who blasts his radio at 2 in the morning. In the second half of the book, he turns his wit on himself. “Summer Dusk,” for example, is as close to a pastoral as you’re likely to get from Hoagland. It begins, “I put in my goddamn hearing aid / to listen to a bird…” The poems in the second half in particular are funny, a little melancholy, sometimes a little mean, but they work because they “aim up” or, better yet, aim in.

In “The Story of the Mexican Housekeeper,” his father recalls “family friends” who “hired a woman from across the border, // then kept her hostage for seven years.” The poet/speaker is disgusted that his father apparently finds the story amusing, but when the exploited woman appears near the end of the poem, he imagines her anger directed at him, not his father or even her captors: “she’s mad as hell / not at my dad, but me–yelling // that she doesn’t want to be in this poem for one more minute.” Does using the story in the poem make him complicit in her exploitation? The poem doesn’t answer that question, but it is full of a powerful tension worth exploring.

Like much of Hoagland’s work, these poems “balance on the fence / between irony and hope.” It’s a difficult position to maintain gracefully. When he does, the poems are wry, challenging, and emotionally complex.

Pair with: a Princeton, a pre-Prohibition drink of Old Tom gin layered over chilled port. It’s pretty. It’s classy. Its two flavors don’t totally mix.

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Amy Watkins

Amy Watkins (Episode 124, 161, 164) grew up in the Central Florida scrub, surrounded by armadillos and palmetto brush and a big, loud, oddly religious family, a situation that’s produced generations of Southern writers. She married her high school sweetheart, had a baby girl and earned her MFA in poetry from Spalding University. Her chapbook, Milk & Water, was published in 2014 by Yellow Flag Press.

Buzzed Books #13: Amy Zhang’s Falling Into Place

09 Tuesday Sep 2014

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Buzzed Books #13 by Leslie Salas

Amy Zhang’s Falling Into Place

Falling Into Place

Falling Into Place centers on the most popular junior at Meridian high school, Liz Emerson, and her choice to practice the laws of physics by driving her Mercedes off an icy road. Liz’s story unfolds in braided non-chronological storytelling, bouncing between an unlikely narrator’s take on Liz’s wild-child exploits as the popular girl and “snapshot” flashbacks of the girl Liz used to be.

This debut novel by teen writer Amy Zhang stands out as one of the most challenging Young Adult novels on the market. Zhang’s storytelling is solid and literary-quality, capturing the heart of high school life in a way makes me nostalgic for hallways lined with lockers and half-dressed boys in the backseats of cars.

The secondary characters in this novel—Liz’s best friends Julia and Kennie, Liz’s mother, and the mysterious boy that witnesses her crash on the interstate—are all as well-rounded as Liz is. Each of them are believably imperfect in a way that makes them as endearing as they are frustrating.

Falling Into Place is an engaging read, an honest reflection of contemporary high school experiences and the struggles of growing up in dysfunctional households, including depression, substance abuse, and drug addition.

First-time author Amy Zhang shows a great deal of promise. She delivers a page-turning novel well worth an evening spent curled on the couch with a bottle by your ankles.

Pair with: Vodka. Any kind will do. The protagonist wasn’t picky about it, and you shouldn’t be, either.

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Leslie Salas (Photo by Ashley Inguanta)

Leslie Salas (episode 75) writes fiction, nonfiction, screenplays, and comics. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Florida and attended the University of Denver Publishing Institute. In addition to being an Associate Course Director at Full Sail University, Leslie also serves as an assistant editor for The Florida Review, a graphic nonfiction editorial assistant for Sweet: A Literary Confection, and a regular contributing artist for SmokeLong Quarterly.

Buzzed Books #7: Train Shots

31 Monday Mar 2014

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Buzzed Books #7 by Mark Pursell

Vanessa Blakeslee’s Train Shots

Train Shots

In “Princess of Pop”, the eighth of eleven stories that comprise Vanessa Blakeslee’s debut collectionTrain Shots, Blakeslee gives a voice to one of our most exposed yet tight-lipped pop culture titans: Britney Spears. In a gutsy move that could have easily backfired or lent itself to lazy satire, Blakeslee assumes the mantle of a Spears-esque pop sensation pacing the dimensions of her luxury hotel room, hemmed in physically and psychologically by the paparazzi, the suits she works for, her fame, and her own fears about being a woman and a mother. Blakeslee immerses us in the claustrophobia of the singer’s tightly-controlled world with sensitivity and an eye towards fairness, falling neither on the side of the tabloids who sensationalize and capitalize on the erratic behavior of celebrities nor on the side of apologists who paint spotlight seekers as victims of media run amok. It’s a remarkable story and, due to its conceit, the flashiest you’ll find in Train Shots—the other characters that populate the collection’s pages are people like you and me, fast food workers and lovelorn expatriates, troubled parents and clashing couples—but strangely enough, it’s this pseudo-Britney story that brings its more conventional cousins into sharper focus. The characters in Train Shots are all trapped to varying degrees, caught between choices, addictions, and threats over which the protagonists have little control. It’s easy to imagine a pop star bowing under the immeasurable financial and cultural pressures applied to her, but in the ten other stories Blakeslee shows that we are all bearing up under our own pressures—financial, cultural, and otherwise—and that feelings of paralysis are not merely the province of those under public scrutiny.

Consider the unnamed, second-person protagonist of “Clock In”—which imagines the wall-eyed stupor of a fast-food wage slave—or the young woman in “Don’t Forget the Beignets” who, faced with the arrest of her money-laundering boyfriend, must decide whether to stand by her man or cut him loose. The time-honored space between a rock and a hard place is a familiar habitat for Blakeslee’s characters, but she doesn’t let them off the hook, or try to comfort the reader with easy solutions or hollow optimism. A different writer tackling these same characters and situations might have produced work that erred on the side of nihilism, or, oppositely, attempted to address emotional entrapment through hamfisted catharsis or redemption. But in Train Shots, epiphanies are ephemeral and momentary, resolving like dust motes in sunlight only to slip out of view if you move in the slightest. The answers that the characters grasp for materialize but rarely and reluctantly stay put. Blakeslee delicately forges a path somewhere between these two poles, and in doing so succeeds in depicting human nature with as much “truth” as it is possible to arrive at.

The author’s prose goes a long way towards helping her achieve this effect. Her sentences unwind with a rangy grace, only stopping to call attention to themselves in quick imagistic bursts before comfortably settling themselves once more. Never is this more apparent than in the collection’s most memorable and successful story, “Welcome, Lost Dogs,” in which one of the aforementioned lovelorn expatriates, languishing in rural Costa Rica, attempts to hunt down her stolen dogs. The dusty, sun-blasted landscape rises up all around our protagonist in mirror of her growing desperation. The knife of an assailant glints cold and dangerous in the dawn. Meanwhile, within, the woman flutters between the past and the future, attempting to reconcile the imminent death of a former lover with her own ambivalence about what to do with herself or where to go now. She twists against her circumstances, caught on them as if by barbed wire, and Blakeslee follows the convoluted paths of her protagonist’s turmoil using the same line-by-line precision with which she etches the light and flavor of her settings.

This juxtaposition of external and internal conflicts is a well-used tool in any author’s box, but it’s easier said than done to pull off effectively, much less with aplomb. Blakeslee wisely avoids sentimental frippery and excessive figurative posturing when going down this route. Consider “The Sponge Diver”, where a sexually-anxious young woman finds herself confounded when a sanitary sponge refuses to dislodge from inside her. It’s a predicament equally tinged with humor and panic, but the most remarkable thing about it is that it plays out without the metaphorical heavy-handedness one might expect.

Perhaps that is the most remarkable thing, in the end, about Train Shots; that Blakeslee plumbs the deep waters of love, disconnection, and the purpose of life without succumbing to the weight of pretension. The title story, which concludes the collection, tackles a subject no less complex or overexposed than mortality; in it, a railroad engineer confronts his growing bewilderment after a young woman throws herself in front of his train. Deeply shaken and haunted by the memory of a previous, similar incident, the engineer loses himself in drink, capitalizing on the sympathy of college girls; at the bar, the staff pass around “train shots” whenever a locomotive goes rumbling past. Blakeslee doesn’t sledgehammer this conceit, which gives the haunting, melancholy nature of it room to breathe and take its own shape in the reader’s mind. There is something sadly human about throwing back an ounce of tequila as a train—that industrial age symbol of greed, progress, and all their attendant casualties—thunders by. It is both toast and resignation. Which, strangely enough, is an apt encapsulation of this artful, elegiac collection.

Pair with: tequila shots (of course).

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Mark Pursell in Orange

 

Mark Pursell (Episode 75) is a lifelong geek and lover of words. His publishing credits include Nimrod International Journal, The New Orleans Review, and The Florida Review, where he also served as poetry editor. His work can most recently be seen in the first volume of the 15 Views of Orlando anthology from Burrow Press. He currently teaches storytelling and narrative design for video games at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida.

Buzzed Books #6: Writing (Not-So-) Magical Realism

10 Tuesday Sep 2013

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Buzzed Books #6 by Alise Hamilton

Writing (not-so)Magical Realism

The Color Master

Within these fifteen stories, a girl sews the stripes back onto tigers, a boy can’t recognize faces, a teacher attempts to explain the origins of the universe, and mysterious, yet ordinary, objects keep appearing in one American family’s home. Aimee Bender is well known as a fabulist, magic realist writer and one of the masters of the short story form. The Color Master is Aimee Bender doing what Aimee Bender does best.

There seems to me to be less world creating in this collection than in some of her earlier work. Instead, the stories are often presented with individual magical elements attributed to particular characters (who are living in the world as we know it), more Bender’s bestselling novel The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. In fact, a few stories in the collection—“Lemonade,” “The Red Ribbon,” and “On a Saturday Afternoon”—while quirky, lack any traditional fantastic elements at all. Yet, like Bender’s strictly surrealist fiction, these stories are told in a style often attributed to fairy tales. The plotting is face-paced and the language is matter-of-fact, but the overall effect of the stories is that they are weighty and important; despite their quirks, Bender’s stories feel classic.

“Origin Lessons,” is a four-page story told in the plural first person from a group of school children eager to know how it all began, origins of life and the beginning of the universe. The story, again, is not does not literally contain “magic,” but the telling is whimsical and elements of space—its expanding and accelerating, matter and radiation—so foreign to the students it may as well be spells and wizards. In the story, the students struggle to comprehend the rules of the universe by comparing them to familiar images and symbols: suitcases and brides. The story, then, becomes a larger metaphor for storytelling itself. Aren’t writers all trying to find the familiar images with which to express love, grief, desire…all the greater elements of life? Isn’t our limited language at once frustrating and beautiful?

Pair with: 95 beer steins at the ogre tavern

Find THE COLOR MASTER now at your local independent bookstore or buy online at Powells.com.

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Alise Hamilton

Alise Hamilton (Episode 7, essay) earned her MFA from Lesley University and holds a BFA in creative writing, literature, and publishing from Emerson College. Her short fiction appeared in the Francesca Lia Block-edited anthology Love Magick.

Buzzed Books #5: Taking Setting off the Sidelines

03 Tuesday Sep 2013

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Buzzed Books #5 by Alise Hamilton

Taking Setting off the Sidelines

This is Paradise

Many authors, from James Joyce to Annie Proulx, have used place as a device for linking stories. Debut author Kristiana Kahakauwila follows in that tradition with six stories set across the islands of Hawai’i in her new collection, This is Paradise.

This is Paradise as a collection explores, as you may expect, themes of home, tourism, race, authenticity, and “outsiders vs. insiders” (both within the context of a community and individual families). All of these issues spring from a natural tension built into the setting.

Kahakauwila utilizes setting in her stories in every possible way. Maui, Oahu, and Kaua’i are as layered and complex as the most important characters. And characters respond to their surroundings by either like feeling that they deeply belong, or that they never will. In “Wanle,” the main character is woman who has followed her father’s path of cockfighting. Like her father, murdered years ago, she raises, trains, and fights her birds with great dedication. Like her father, she speaks pidgin. Her motivation comes from notions of both honor and revenge, notions tied strongly to heritage and place. To understand this character, it is critical that we, the reader, understand where she is from. And when her lover asks her to give up cockfighting, corrects her English and asks her to speak differently, “properly,” the reader needs to understand the importance, not just of family, but also of home and place to understand what this character’s lover is really asking her to give up.

The title story is told in a wonderfully original and complex structure: in the plural first person from a variety of groups—young surfers, hotel workers, and businesswomen heading home from work as they independently observe and cross paths with a tragic young tourist. The three groups allows the reader to see Waikiki through three distinct points of view, and the beautiful beachfront neighborhood transforms from a daytime oasis, to an everyday place of business and commerce, to a place with a dark nightlife, and finally back again. In the end, of course, Waikiki is not simply one of these places, but all of them at once—and often at odds with itself.

Setting does not just offer characterization and put our characters feet on Earth, it can work to raise the stakes. Setting, a story element too often ignored, can serve as the central conflict.

No matter where the story is set, I’m excited to read whatever Kahakauwila has in store for readers next.

Pair with: the Crown Royal found in Junior’s refrigerator

Find THIS IS PARADISE now at your local independent bookstore or buy online at Powells.com.

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Alise Hamilton

Alise Hamilton (Episode 7, essay) earned her MFA from Lesley University and holds a BFA in creative writing, literature, and publishing from Emerson College. Her short fiction appeared in the Francesca Lia Block-edited anthology Love Magick.

Buzzed Books #4: Why all Writers Should be Paying Attention to YA

27 Tuesday Aug 2013

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Buzzed Books #4 by Alise Hamilton

Why all Writers Should be Paying Attention to Young Adult Literature

Ari and DanteI first took note of Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe during the ALA awards last winter, when it won the Pura Belpre Award, the Stonewall Book Award and was named as a Printz Honor Book. I have been trying to inject more young adult literature into my reading—a good part due to the direction of my latest manuscript—but also because of the general excitement surrounding the genre. During my tenure as an independent bookseller, I saw YA as a continually growing genre—both in the store, and as publishers expanded, or developed, their YA imprints. With YA, I witnessed reluctant readers, both young and old, engaged with fiction, at the same time I was observing regular readers enthusiastically consuming YA titles. More so, I have been inspired by authors such as Kelly Link, Jack Gantos, Sherman Alexie, Laurie Halse Anderson, M.T. Anderson, and Chris Lynch (to only name a few) as they push the limits of genre, delve, without fear or hesitation into difficult and dark topics, and stay true (or perhaps finally return) to the cornerstone of fiction: story.

Yet, despite all this excitement, there seems to exist a general notion that young adult literature lacks substance, or merit on a prose level, and I suspect this comes from the enormous popularity (and promotion) of a handful of “blockbuster” titles: from The Hunger Games, to Twilight, to Pretty Little Liars. Books like these, big screen ready and seemingly published with pre-conceived tie-in merchandising, are not indicative of the genre as a whole. (This is not, of course, to malign the many wonderful books that find a larger audience through film or television or to suggest they are inherently inferior to other, perhaps more obscure, literary titles.)

What I mean to say it that Bejamin Alire Saenz’s award winning Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe is not “just” a fantastic YA novel, it is a fantastic novel. Ari and Dante, the novel’s young protagonists, are two very different, but compatible, outsiders who find a strong friendship in one another. As characters they are undeniably likeable—two, self-proclaimed “nice guys”—a story-telling element that is deceivingly difficult to pull off. They each come from in-tact, nuclear families, and while the parents, especially Ari’s, are flawed, they are engaged and deeply loving. In this way, Saenz did not allow himself any “tricks.” Aristotle and Dante…is a straightforward love-slash-coming-of-age story, which utilizes impeccable characterization, fine pacing, and accessible (while interesting) prose that any writing student would do well to pay attention to, or enjoy, simply, as pleasure reading.

That said, I do think that setting the book in the late 1980s is something of a cheap trick to avoid addressing new communication technologies such as text messaging, emails, facebook or twitter—especially as these mediums pertain to teenagers. While it could be argued that setting the novel in the 80s raises the stakes on the topic of homosexuality, it is not beyond reason to think teens in the last twenty years have an equally difficult time coming out, as is presented in the book.

Which is to say, too, that the book is relatable—and not only for gay teens, although I do imagine a book like this can—and surely has—offer a considerable amount of comfort to a young person struggling with his sexuality.  And isn’t comfort an important aspect of literature, especially young adult literature? Stories don’t need to be comforting to be worthwhile—but is there such a thing as a book-lover who has never sought comfort in his favorite novel or poem?

What Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe delivers is what readers most often crave: beautiful sentences, characters to root for, and a story that keeps you turning the page.

Pair with: your first beer

 Find ARISTOTLE AND DANTE DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE now at your local independent bookseller or buy online at Powells.com.

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Alise Hamilton

Alise Hamilton (Episode 7, essay) earned her MFA from Lesley University and holds a BFA in creative writing, literature, and publishing from Emerson College. Her short fiction appeared in the Francesca Lia Block-edited anthology Love Magick.

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