Jennifer L. Knox

Jennifer L. Knox's darkly imaginative new collection unearths rare epiphanies in an unbounded landscape of forms, voices, and subjects-from epidemiology to history to true crime. A country music star lifts his head from a pile of cocaine as an ancient conifer erupts from the bottom of Lake Tahoe. mehr anzeigen Loutish voices from the past encroach on an aging mother, blurring surrealism and reality. The Anthropocene self-destructs, and mushrooms take care of the cleanup. At once laugh-aloud hilarious and startlingly compassionate, Crushing It explores our tenuous connections and the ego's inexhaustible urge to assert its centrality. weniger anzeigen