Overview
Jesús Castillo has created a sprawling contemporary epic that channels the mighty voices of the past (Ovid, Sappho) into a plainspoken song of our times. In a deft, generous style, Castillo takes hold of the stuff of our everyday lives and converts it into modern manna. The book is lovingly relentless, quietly piercing. It is a terrifyingly recognizable call: it is filled with all of our voices, our panic, our modern love, our screens, our roommate's cough, our melting icebergs, our planes and malls and frailties. Castillo writes, This is a test. A set of margins created for company. For waiting in train stationsor asking a stranger the time. You're allowedto freak out this much only. There's a green carparked outside, by the curb, near the bike racks.An old man is asking people to putchange in his plastic cup, and I remembermy name contains both my father's andgrandfather's stories. The table I'm sitting atis made of steel and marble. It's cold and it'sspring. In the song on the radio, a noise?
- | Author: Jesús Castillo
- | Publisher: McSweeney's
- | Publication Date: Jan 19, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 100 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 194045042X
- | ISBN-13: 9781940450421
