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WordHoard Reviews The Passion of Phineas Gage 
September 27th, 2006 by Jesse Glass

Thanks to Alan Halsey, who forwarded the link and thanks to Wordhoard.

An excerpt:

The ‘journey’ unfolds with a quote from Malcolm Macmillan’s An Odd Kind of Fame, a text Glass acknowledges in the preface as a source of information, before telling us that ‘it is not known if Gage had a wife and family; poetically we say he did.’ Already Glass is blurring the distinction between biography and art, and he goes on to assure us (as if we had any doubts) that what follows ‘is the only long poem to treat of the subject.’ The latter is not just a bit of posturing on Glass’s part – by asking us to consider poetry on a par with biography he wants us to forget the distinction, too, before beginning to read Gage’s story ‘in his own words.’

Click here to read the rest of the review. You can order The Passion of Phineas Gage & Selected Poems from Ahadada (click here) and Small Press Distribution (click here).

Note that we had quite a run on copies of The Passion of Phineas Gage & Selected Poems in September owing to a couple of classes picking up the text. Additional supply is currently winging its way to California. For whatever reason, it takes poetry longer to clear customs than fiction. Too subversive? They should have copies shortly, regardless.

In the meantime, we are offering free shipping to US addresses to make up for US Customs’ pace!

Thanks all! More soon from Jesse and I.

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