At some points, Santos’ memoir read like “a strange sanctuary devoted to the memory of an accidental death” (171). At others, I got the feeling of accompanying someone on an exhaustive quest, driven “by the Creator to walk twenty-four miles a day” (48). My favorite moments, however, were those in which I could simply bear [...]
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Circling the center
Posted in Places Left Unfinished, character, voice, tagged dreams, family history, ghosts, macrocosm, microcosm, mysticism on February 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
places left unfinished
Posted in Places Left Unfinished, character, chronology, flashback, setting, voice, tagged ancestry, awesome, biculturality, border, complex, craft, dark, exile, family, flow, fluidity, history, intuition, John Phillip Santos, language, malachite, memoir, mysticism, novel, Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation, precision, process, santos, spanish, spirituality, the bomb, timing, translate, translation, wood on February 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
it’s obvious that Santos is a poet. his use of repetition (“have all the Santos died?”), his precision, & timing make all the stories within this memoir intriguing & engaging. what i loved most about this book is the seamlessness between Santos’ family history & the story of his life. his craft is novel (no pun intended…or maybe [...]
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