Injuring Eternity
Injuring Eternity
a Künstlerroman In Twenty-Six Cantos
A precocious boy and his harried father are making a movie from scratch, using only materials in the backyard--or entertaining the possibilities. Their discussion expands to an examination of various cosmogonies and cosmologies, rational and borderline-psychotic, and gradually becomes a duel to the death
Details
Details
Guernica World Editions (World Poetry)
9781771835275
100 pages |
Reviews
Reviews
Tom Bradley is one of the most exasperating, offensive, pleasurable, and brilliant writers I know. I recommend his work to anyone with spiritual fortitude and a taste for something so strange that it might well be genius. --Denis Dutton, editor of Arts & Letters Daily ("among the most influential media personalities in the world," according to Time Magazine) When is the world going to wake up to the genius of Tom Bradley? One of the most criminally underrated authors on the planet. --Andrew Gallix, of the Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, the Independent, Literary Review and the Times Literary Supplement The contemporaries of Michelangelo found it useful to employ the term terribilita to characterize some of the expressions of his genius, and I will quote it here to sum up the shocking impact of [Tom Bradley's novel Acting Alone] as a whole. I read it in a state of fascination, admiration, awe, anxiety, and outrage. --R.V. Cassill, editor of The Norton An
When is the world going to wake up to the genius of Tom Bradley? One of the most criminally underrated authors on the planet.
Andrew Gallix, of the Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, the Independent, Literary Review and the Times Literary SupplementThe contemporaries of Michelangelo found it useful to employ the term terribilita to characterize some of the expressions of his genius, and I will quote it here to sum up the shocking impact of [Tom Bradley's novel Acting Alone] as a whole. I read it in a state of fascination, admiration, awe, anxiety, and outrage.
R.V. Cassill, editor of The Norton Anthology of Fiction
Awards
Awards
About the author
Tom Bradley has published twenty-eight books with houses in the USA, England and Canada. He has received nominations for the Editor’s Book Award, the New York University Bobst Prize, and the AWP Series. 3:AM Magazine gave him the Nonfiction Book of the Year Award in 2007 and 2009. His journalism and criticism have appeared in Salon.com and Arts & Letters Daily.