Parisian Novels poetry by Richard Truhlar   The Front Press 74 pp.   This is Truhlar's second major collection of literary works. A full book long-poem which is presented in eight related sections.

Content Prologue: The Gallery A Crib Across Time Unexpected Density Silent Apostrophe Death in the Olenid Mode Moths Have Killed A Tissue of Imitation Epilogue: The Reading Room

 


What the critics and other writers say:

"Richard is undoubtably one of the finest writers in the English language today. His books push language to the limits, get inside of it to stretch it through all its possibilities."
- Misha Nogha, Ice River Review

"Using the technique of deferral, Truhlar succeeds in drawing closer & closer to his subject, achieving an almost painful intimacy even as his voice appears to become more & more objective. In just that way in which objects take on a totemic significance in our daily lives, so Truhlar achieves in his descriptions of things & emotions an active still life, moments of stasis in which the absolute motion/emotion of the world can be perceived." - bpNichol

"Parisian Novels by Richard Truhlar is a wonderful poem sequence with weight and authority, much to my taste." - Brian Aldiss

"Truhlar creates an effective tension between his writing and his reader by employing a post-surrealist style." - John Riddell, CVII