The Thing In Packy Innard’s Place
Language: English
Published by Rosace Publications, 2019
- Softcover
- New
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- Title
- The Thing In Packy Innard’s Place
- Author
- Bearden, David Omer
- Publisher
- Rosace Publications
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0999777718
- ISBN 13
- 9780999777718
- Item weight
- 223 grams
David Omer Bearden’s last piece of writing was his magnum opus. The Thing in Packy Innard’s Place — is an innovative novel of adroit storytelling. A picaresque? A satire? A work of high-fantasy? A dystopian fiction infused with aspects of the quotidian? It exhibits all of these elements yet remains a hard book to classify.
Bearden, who for much of his life worked outside the conventional literary status quo, has produced a fey tale based upon his final years spent living in Scranton, Pennsylvania. After his life in the limelight as a widely-traveled poet and musician, he settled into the closed and shuttered city of Awoken. Whether schmoozing at a local Irish bar or redemptively working as the night manager and caretaker for a homeless shelter — he is a close observer of both scenes. As for the city of Scranton itself, he poetically describes its people, its architecture, and its natural setting with precise detail, intelligent wit, surrealist imagery, and inventive lingo.
Stylistic comparisons in the book can be made to James Joyce’s logophilia, Philip Lamantia’s surrealist poetry, and Vladimir Nabokov’s elaborately long sentences. Bearden’s own love for vocabulary while coupled with his use of everyday spoken language are on display throughout The Thing In Packy Innard’s Place. He handles words by their roots — to be pushed, pulled, chopped, re-ordered, re-invented, and expanded into new ideating forms.
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Review
-- Dion Wright
"In his final work, David Bearden casts a "dure-eye" on the barflies of a local tavern that he frequented and a sympathetic one on the denizens of the homeless shelter where he worked. The result is The Thing In Packy Innard's Place--a work of high fantasy informed by an affinity for the quotidian. As a stranger in their midst Bearden's narrator evokes a hypnagogic vision of the lives of the people of Scranton, Pennsylvania as well as the city's history and natural environs."
-- Robert Dumont
"The Thing In Packy Innard's Place certainly has a place among experimental, avant-garde writings both for his evident broad acquaintance with various contemporary, at the time, cultural nuances and events, as well as his embrace of literally funky world spaces. I can dig from that read why he would have admired Lamantia because there is more than a trace of neo-surrealistic prose to find in his made language."
-- Gerd Stern
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