Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows Book

Miners, polar bears, insurgents sweeping across the desert in Toyota pick-ups, a detective on the trail of illegal fur traders, Venus Williams's deconstructed forehand, wild horses, blooming chysanthemums, tadpoles eating corpses in the Euphrates, and so much more - Leslie Scalapino's Floats Horse-Floats of Horse-Flows is a dazzling, startlingly beautiful, politically engaged, poetic novel. Narrative moments arrive out of inchoate states - an alexia where unknown words create a future - and the reader is continually and unexpectedly moved by the buoyancy and breathtaking velocity of Leslie Scalapino's language. Leslie Scalapino's writing reveals how language - and therefore thought itself - can go beyond what we are accustomed to, and the forms in which she writes delightfully defy our expectations. Yet her work is infused with a seriousness, a passion, a timeliness, and an intelligence with which we profoundly identify - Lydia Davis, author of Samuel Johnson is Indignant.Read More