Stag | Kari-Lise Alexander
Richard Bruce Nugent
Bohemian, Writer, unappreciated Visionary
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BORNE by Jeff VanderMeer: Bleak Beauty and Mordant Humor.
If I were to adapt Jeff Vandermeer’s BORNE to the screen, I would make it an animated feature to truly capture the surrealistic hallucinatory aspect of the novel. (I’m talking animation in the vein of the French cult film FANTASTIC PLANET). Full of mordant humor (see what I did there???) and haunting, lyrical imagery, the novel calls to mind the visionary fiction of Steve Erickson and Angela Carter. The apocalyptic world he creates is both beautiful and terrifying. The post-human bioform Borne is both loveable and bewilderingly alien. BORNE is now my favorite Vandermeer
SONG YET SUNG by James McBride
Set on the bleak Eastern Shore of Maryland, this bloody, visionary novel recounts the escape of a clairvoyant slave woman, and her relentless pursuit by slave catchers. The fellow slaves believe that she’s been blessed with divine visions, and struggle to keep her safe. The book is peopled with watermen, their widows, and slaves, black and white people, heroes and villians. (One of the most chilling is the female slave catcher, who is as creepy as Anton Chigurgh (No Country for Old Men) who is based on a true life person). SONG YET SUNG reads like a cross between Cormac McCarthy at his bloodiest and Octavia Butler at her most visionary.
Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer (NetGalley review). Visionary Weirdness.
I suspect that a great many readers will not appreciate the dense language and the non-linear structure a this loose prequel to…
BOOK REVIEW: The Girl in the Road by Monica Byrne. This visionary novel’s Tiptree Award honor is well-deserved!
A snake bite opens The Girl in the Road,a novel that seems to have all of the hallmarks of a thriller. The book is set in the near-future, a time where the West’s power has waned and India and Ethiopia have become world powers. Technological wonders, such as sub dermal implants and new energy sources, abound. Political turmoil still exists, and the heroine Meena believes that the death of her…
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MUSIC: Autumn’s Grey Solace, “Therium.” An Ethereal dreampop song suite.
MUSIC: Autumn’s Grey Solace, “Therium.” An Ethereal dreampop song suite.
Ever since 2011’s album Eifelian AGS has been composing abstract odes to long lost worlds. Eocene followed in 2018, and Therium is the latest addition to this thematic cluster. It doesn’t stray far from the formula of beautiful soprano wordless vocalizations (Erin Welton) over a shimmering tapestry of guitars, bass and drums (performed by Scott Ferrell). AGS is quite capable of making melodic…
For more than thirty years, Kerry James Marshall has been creating art
to inspire important conversations about African American history and
identity. His paintings follow the grand traditions of Leonardo da Vinci
and Michelangelo, but with new narratives in which black people are the
central figures. While Marshall initially began his career as an
abstract artist, his dramatic shift to figurative painting occurred in
the 1980s when he realized that African American artists and subjects
were being excluded from major art museums and galleries. Marshall
decided he would use the techniques of the Old Masters so revered in
those institutions to create a new dialogue, in which black perspectives
are given greater visibility within the art history canon. See more on HiFructose.com
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