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Field Report
Fiction. FIELD REPORT begins in affirmation and ends in doubt. Between start and finish there are archaic dictions and near-invented languages, simplistic jokes that a seven-year-old might tell and visions of what might be astonishments. One sentence states: What wondrous things words--what, the optimal word here, turns the statement toward a question, one left long unanswered. The twenty stories in this book comprise a field report filed by an anthropologist, providing a concise and complete outline of culture as seen through the tri-lens of sensation, perception and vision. Along the way some pancakes, frogs and gelato get mixed into our favorite pot--or is it plot? One particularly effusive informant offers a wealth of information--passionate in its despair, and the reader might find it--in response--not too late to consider the world presented in FIELD REPORT with a touch of mercy.
America/Trattabili
Literary Nonfiction. Barone's work portrays how Italian American authors of different times and generations negotiated this challenging terrain called America. From the immigrant pick-and-shovel poet Pascal D'Angelo sleeping in workers' camps and dreaming of an artist's life, to John Fante finding his milieu, these writings weave complex identities between Italy and America, immigrant and native-born, and interpret such ongoing and unsettled negotiations.
On the Bus
Fiction. I love this book! Dennis Barone is a genius. The verbal, rhetorical, gestural, imaginative resources he orchestrates--or is it choreo-graphs?--or is it paints?--in ON THE BUS: SELECTED STORIES, exhilarate at every turn, and the turns (riffs, digressions, conflations, elaborations, subtractions, puns, and so on), tumble forth pell-mell, helter-skelter, topsy-turvy. 'Much Madness is divinest Sense--' became my constant comment reading these linguistically rich, emotionally wide-ranging and truly varying stories. Dickinson qualifies her madness definition with 'To a discerning Eye--'. Don't fret if you've not got one--in the convention of all breakthrough texts, Barone's prose instructs on the fly. 'Her whims, we said in those days, are our whereabouts'--and this, 'He doesn't so much wear the turtlenecks as stuffs them with the being that he calls himself': just two of Barone's ten thousand sentences of pure aesthetic pleasure. The Madness here is not to be missed--it's a celebration of language quo language married to the texture of existence.--Gray Jacobik
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The Disguise of Events
Prose Poetry. In THE DISGUISE OF EVENTS, a chaos of assorted experiences and references resolve themselves into a heap of strange voices and conundrums. Outsiders and critics chime in mercilessly like a rowdy crowd awaiting an execution; scenes stand in for other scenes in eclectic flashes--nymphs are forced to inhabit body after body--all as if to assert that "choice remains ever out of our control." "The sentences link and make a puzzle or a map or a path in the wilderness, nevertheless a familiar wilderness turned strange"--Peter Ganick. Dennis Barone's work has appeared in the Chicago Review, The Prose Poem: An International Journal, and Quarter After Eight among others; in 1992 he held the Thomas Jefferson Chair, a distinguished lecturing award in the Netherlands. He currently teaches at St. Joseph's College in Connecticut.
Parallel Lines
Poetry. "Dennis Barone pays attention. His keen eye and ear let the luminousness of the ordinary detail light up even his most abstract ruminations, just as his sly humor lies in wait behind the most earnest of them. In these poems, you will for the first time smell 'the oil / leaking from the car that has stopped at / that stop light just long enough to note / that "so much depends"'" Barry Schwabsky."
Second Thoughts
Poetry. Fiction. Art. A book of lyric essays and prose poems seeking truth through fragments and spectrums.
North Arrow
Fiction. These seventeen stories ranging in length from a single paragraph to fifty pages explore issues of voice and silence, identity and its erasure in a style that is often poetic, frequently dark and somber, and occasionally humorous. From many different narrative perspectives, the author offers a jeremiad of sorts, urging readers to examine their own virtues and vices before venerating or condemning others. The title story, for example, describes the difficulties faced by a young woman veterinarian in the Netherlands. Not all of her problems originate with the men she meets who are skeptical about a woman's ability to work with large farm animals. In this bildungsroman of thematic oppo...
Temple of the Rat
"Dennis Barone's novella, Temple of the Rat, features an unnamed narrator at work on a research project whose exact nature and import he carefully guards. He is - in this story where the past is like a river which floods its banks - a history scholar. His story centers around his relationship with the family living across the street from him. The elder of the two sons, a cellist, first appears when he comes over to help the narrator get rid of a rat that has run into his apartment. The rat's intrusion merely prefigures the intrusions to come of poetic, dream-like passages into the story's realistic framework. Shortly after the episode with the rat, while looking out his window one morning, the narrator sees a woman and a boy on the front stoop of the building opposite. As the story progresses, he will learn more, both about them and the cellist. For the narrator, the mystery deepens with each new piece of information he receives, even as he becomes as compelling in his own right as the supposed subject of his story"--Cover
