Ghost at the Loom - Softcover

Cotler, T. Zachary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184982245X ISBN 13: 9781849822459

Publisher: MP Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Among restless cosmopolitans and enigmatic wanderers, he tries to sort the real from the illusory and to protect the latter from the former, from a shining new voice in literary fiction, a young poet seeks his lost and damaged sister in the cities of old Europe, Cotler takes the reader on an American odyssey of innocence abroad, through beauty, truth, and the danger our imaginations face in a culture of high-speed popular media.

About this title

About the Author:

Theodore Zachary Cotler is the author of a novel, Ghost at the Loom, a critical monograph, Elegies for Humanism, and three books of poetry, House with a Dark Sky Roof, Sonnets to the Humans, and Supplice. His awards include the Colorado Prize, the Sawtooth Prize, the Amy Clampitt Residency, and the Ruth Lilly Fellowship. His poems appear in Poetry, Paris Review, the New York Times, and other journals. He is a founding editor of The Winter Anthology, winteranthology.com

Review:

"Transcendent...a unique and beautiful book. Ghost at the Loom reads like a mellifluous fever dream." - ForeWord        "A beautiful, disturbing portrait of an artist." - Kirkus                                                                                                                                          "Among the many pleasures of Ghost at the Loom is an evocation of Americans in Europe that actually holds a candle to the work of Henry James...Ghost at the Loom makes me want to read everything else Cotler has written and everything he will write." - Bookslut     

"An evocative, complex, and hallucinatory eulogy for reality...heartbreaking--a haunting novel that plumbs the depths of the human psyche." - Publishers Weekly     "Ghost at the Loom is brilliant, it never ceases to be brilliant, and there are times I think it aspires to be the crystallization of all things literary. Absolutely stunning writing, marked by a vigilant restraint." - Lamar Herrin, author of Fractures and The Lies Boys Tell

"Cotler has taken to heart Keats' admonition to load every rift with ore." - Reginald Shepherd, author of Orpheus in the Bronx

"In baseball, T. Zachary Cotler would be considered a 'triple threat.'" - KGB Bar Magazine

A writer with talent, instinct, and profound courage. T. Zachary Cotler's books have a permanent place in my library.

(Simon Van Booy, author of The Illusion of Separateness)

About this edition

• Publisher: MP Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 184982245X
• ISBN 13: 9781849822459
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224