Fiction. "Am I inside the poem?" asks Monk, narrator of Nakell's new novel. Each and every gesture, every advance this questing Monk makes, involves itself in a grammar of growing awareness. Monk's achievements may seem inconsequential to a reader outside 12th c. Asian monasteries and retreats this Monk wanders among, yet through the performances and interactivities of their inhabitants, their subjected-to status emerges as an embodiment of clearer...