http://www.constantcritic.com/ray_mcdaniel/the_babies/ Timely poetry reviews Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:50:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.constantcritic.com/ray_mcdaniel/the_babies/comment-page-1/#comment-111 Ross Peterson Fri, 07 Jan 2005 09:56:00 +0000 http://www.constantcritic.test/ray_mcdaniel/the_babies#comment-111 Ray,<br> You've lost me. Is Mark's prose poetry advancing inside/outside the letters? Is the place the narrator (whoever that is) moved into in a former war zone?<br> What about the bilingualism. It could be in a German-speaking Amish community in the Midwest. What significance does the foreign tongue play, any in the letters?<br> It threw me when I hit the line "The Babies is clearly a war book, and the recursive cornices of 20th century European war . . ." because at that point in the review the point was not clear to me.<br> Most intriguing of all questions unanswered that I come out of this reading with is this Has this sort of collection in a book form ever been done before? Did Kafka break the ground here?<br> What else? Thanks,<br> Ross Ray,
You’ve lost me. Is Mark’s prose poetry advancing inside/outside the letters? Is the place the narrator (whoever that is) moved into in a former war zone?
What about the bilingualism. It could be in a German-speaking Amish community in the Midwest. What significance does the foreign tongue play, any in the letters?
It threw me when I hit the line “The Babies is clearly a war book, and the recursive cornices of 20th century European war . . .” because at that point in the review the point was not clear to me.
Most intriguing of all questions unanswered that I come out of this reading with is this Has this sort of collection in a book form ever been done before? Did Kafka break the ground here?
What else? Thanks,
Ross

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