Description: Kaminsky wields his own ax against the iconic "Kafka," the classic modernist we think we know.
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In this tour de force, Kaminsky wields his own ax against the iconic "Kafka," the classic modernist we think we know. Smashing that idol in the book's multiple collaged texts, poetry and prose, Kaminsky restores the shattered, impossibly cohering fragments of Kafka's own
being.
-PHILIP FRIED, author of Interrogating Water and other poems and editor of The Manhattan Review
For Kafka, writing was an ax to break the frozen sea within. And so it is with Kaminsky's work, dipping and diving into twists and turns of Kafka's being, particularly his inner life - our inner life. Through poetry, prose, reflection, speculation and documentation, we are led to awe and appreciation for psycho-spiritual reality. We meet faces that seek us and a wind-swept visage challenges us to evolve further, if we can, if we dare. Kafka's Ax eggs us on to the far side of our lives, nothing closer or more intimate, whirls of opacity and transparency
that tear us with wonder.
-MICHAEL EIGEN, author of Under the Totem: In Search of a Path andContact with the Depths
In Kafka's Ax, Marc Kaminsky interweaves prose fiction and poetry with such grace and such remarkable feats of imaginative and sometimes parodic mimicry that one is never entirely sure of the border between genres. This book is for anyone who appreciates the craft of writing and how the language of poetry and prose can come together.
-JACK KUGELMASS, author of The Miracle of Intervale Avenue