Songs That Made The Instrument Infamous: Stories and Statements - Softcover

Jensen, Karl

9780982786628: Songs That Made The Instrument Infamous: Stories and Statements

Softcover

ISBN 10: 098278662X ISBN 13: 9780982786628

Publisher: Vasculiterra Books, 2011

In lengths from five-hundred to near twenty thousand words, Karl Jensen demonstrates in this collection of fifty stories a fairly wide range and, without a doubt, a fully wide-eyed consideration of such perennial concerns as love and loss, life and death, the ever-present constraints of modern living and the ever-pressing curiosities and demands of the human condition. And this with a sincerity as valuable and relevant for any time period which might have just as easily given rise to it, as it surely is to ours. His writing is coming to be known and relied upon by a growing number of readers both here and abroad as an uncompromising and undeniable voice essentially out of nowhere, yet simultaneously speaking from a place which may as well be plucked from the lives of every or any one of us. An attention to the minutiae and minute-by-minute struggles, strains, yet also celebrations and blissful moments of calm recollection comprising life in current-day anywhere, set his speech and focus apart from much of the current literary landscape many have become rightfully disillusioned with. A prose style of plain complexity and a masterful maneuvering between fiction, philosophy, non-fiction and something altogether outside of any of these limiting distinctions will give pleasure to any lover of language, and give pause to any naysayers whose claim is that sentimentality, social awareness, and a legitimately high art will and cannot coexist in near-total harmony within the two covers of a single, simple and controversial book's spine. -LitCalifornia

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