Sprawl

By Danielle Dutton

Book Overview

"SPRAWL in fact does not sprawl at all; rather, it radiates with control and fresh, strange reflection." -- Bookforum "Reads as if Gertrude Stein channeled Alice B. Toklas writing an Arcades Project set in contemporary suburbia." -- The Believer When Danielle Dutton's SPRAWL first broke upon the world in 2010, critics likened it to collage, a poetics of the suburbs, a literal unpacking of et cetera. This updated edition, with a new afterword by Renee Gladman, reopens the space of SPRAWL's "fierce, careful composition"--as Bookforum wrote--"which changes the ordinary into the wonderful and odd." Today I fell asleep in the tall grass near the old train station. It was a complete picture. A fashionable park. Yet the picture had its sordid and selfish aspect. I can't seem to say what I mean, Mrs. Barbauld, but with some urgency I mean to inform you what a triumph the big city has become. I am a secular individual but even I can feel the shift in the horizon utterly alien to the constitution of things, the habitual. Sincerely, etc. I move in shade on the edge of a parking lot under walnut trees in the early morning around the edge of a curve in an accidental manner. I walk the sidewalk and ripple the surface of it. From this condition I have a view of the world. Danielle Dutton is the author of Margaret the First, SPRAWL , and Attempts at a Life . Her writing has also appeared or is forthcoming in The Paris Review, Harper's, The White Review, Fence, BOMB , and others. She is on the faculty of the writing program at Washington University in St. Louis and is co-founder and editor of the feminist press Dorothy, a publishing project.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1940696771
• ISBN13: 9781940696775
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Wave Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 7.7"