Literal Madness: Three Novels: Kathy Goes to Haiti; My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini; Florida (Acker, Kathy)Kathy Goes to Haiti, the first of three novels in Literal Madness, Speaks to us out of a delightful mock navet that reminds one at times of the Dick and Jane readers rewritten as manuals for politics and sex . . . . At once hilarious and terrifying, [it] has all the logic of a Caribbean tour and a nightmare combined (Los Angeles Times). My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini wherein, among other things, the late Italian filmmaker solves his own

Indigenous survivor of Residential Schools

Giant Robot even popped right off the page

Between trespass and penitence

John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome

and boreal forest

This “daughter of the wasteland” is here to show us that her city is no wasteland at all but a glowing landscape of swaying fruit trees and blooming bougainvillea

an expat couple

from the delicate  to the analytic

Szwed's readers—whether they are just discovering Sun Ra or are among the legion of poets

Elsewhere minor edge wear

Confined to a prison cell

with the mobilizing power of the arts essential to give impact to the changes needed to preserve them