The Face in the Garden

by John Lent

"John Lent's suite of stories and poems is a disarming and pleasing work that resists categorization." Malahat Review.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0920633757
• ISBN13: 9780920633755
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Thistledown Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Lent's transition from poetry to fiction succeeds, in part.

John Lent's mixture of prose and poetry in The Face in the Garden marks his transition from an accomplished and demanding poet (Frieze/Wood Lake Music)to a writer of literary fiction. The hybrid form works well, distilling consciousness and more closely approximating subjectivity in the poetry; while, the prose effortlessly drives forth the external narrative with considerable wit. Lent's more recent "Monet's Garden" (Thistledown, 1996) builds off the lessons learned in this transitional volume.