Review
Juice
Mosaic Literary Magazine, Vol.12, p.20
01/01/2002
Abstract
In the third story, "No Through Street," our narrator, who "had gone out to look and never came back," returns to find her hometown changed, and her estranged sister the celebrated painter of a "directional sign" for a street that had been her childhood favorite. "Before she painted that sign," the narrator says, "Hershey was considered only an alley. Now it was a `No Through Street.'" Beneath this easy humor is a return to a past, a person once known, and a serious meditation on the quality of looking, and of leaving, takes place. Ending the set is "First Sleep," the book's most complex piece. In it, the narrator almost obsessively documents the sleep patterns of a neighborhood, especially those of her lover. "A person" seeks a position in which "a body" can be viewed as a whole within the plan of society. Meanwhile, her beloved neighbor has disappeared. This piece is crucial in that it highlights the narrator's acute sense of isolation and amorous longing for communion in a world where the "I" of her own singular creation is at last unified with "the person" born from her community.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Juice
- Creators
- Tisa Bryant
- Resource Type
- Review
- Publication Details
- Mosaic Literary Magazine, Vol.12, p.20
- Publisher
- Literary Freedom Project; Bronx
- ISSN
- 1531-0388
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2002
- Academic Unit
- English
- Record Identifier
- 9984638353102771
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