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...Literature who attended the meeting. Joan Tapper Wendy Bush Carmelita Boivin Sara Bershtel Peter Herman Charles Bernheimer Jane Goldsmith Yehudy Lindeman Rae Ann Nager Anthony Vincent Kenneth R. Androué Jeffrey Green Roger Horwitz Regina Kyle Susan Kirkpatrick Michael Ouellette Lynda Christian Marina Frederiksen Richard Blumenthal Laimdota Mazzarins Peter Grudin Peter Heinegg Jale Parla Ellen Cantarow
INKY DARKLING (298 pp.)-Louis Grudin-Dial...
Poet Louis (The Outer Land) Grudin is to James Joyce what dozens of novelists have been to Hemingway and Proust-an eager copycat who asserts his right to look at his king, even if it leaves him crosseyed. Joyce showed how multiple ideas and emotions get tangled together in the human mind, and how the mention of one thing suggests other quite different things which happen to be "associated," through the sound and look of words...
...Poet Grudin's aim is simply to do the same job all over again in a Times Square accent. His hero is "Louie Bloom Jerce, the inky darkling," i.e., a Joycean "jerk" whose attachment to writing has made him black as ink and a bit of an Irish "darlin"' into the bargain. This opus is Inky's "histree" - which means, of course, both "his tree" and personal "history." Inky admits that, unlike Jerce, he is not much of a scholar - "the penalty for not sticking to my last from the first." He advises people...
...close to 300 pages Author Grudin makes puns and word plays on such simple matters, and although his book (which he slapped toegather in less than four months) is hard going, selected lines might be used for a parlor game, the prize going to the one who extracts the most "associations" in the least time. It can then lie buried, for it will not go down in his tree...
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