She has published many books and chapbooks including Text thing (Little Esther Books, 2002) and Dear Deliria (Salt Publishing, 2003) which was awarded the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for Poetry in 2004. Pam Brown lives in Australia and is co-editor of JACKET Magazine. The Bruise is her first novel and won the Ronald Sukenik Innovative Fiction Prize. She lives in North Carolina where she is working on her PhD at Duke University. Her work has been published in American Poet: The Journal of the Academy of American Poets, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Rattapallax, Talisman, and other magazines. Magdalena Zurawski was born in Newark, NJ in 1972 to Polish immigrants. His widely read Silliman's Blog, a daily journal devoted to contemporary poetry and poetics, has become a major force in online literary criticism. He edited the landmark poetry anthology In the American Tree, and he has received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, two Fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, and three arts commission grants from the state arts councils of California and Pennsylvania. He is the author or editor of twenty-six books of poetry or criticism, among them The Age of Huts (compleat), Tjanting, ABC, Demo to Ink, Paradise, ®, What, Woundwood, and the memoir Under Albany. This is a marvelous debut.Ron Silliman's long awaited collection THE ALPHABET will be available for sale and for signing. Quietly funny and benignly obsessive, there are no bells and whistles here, but simply carefully chosen words that render a life in beautifully exact and breathless terms. ' The Bruise manages to present all the loops and turns of a mind figuring out where it stands in relation to itself while staying playful and spare and crisp in all the right ways. But the book and writing are clever, one has to give Zurawski that. Summing Up: Optional.

To hold one's breath waiting for the plot would not be good for one's health. Is this a female David Foster Wallace-men are allowed to do this lettered wallowing, or is it wandering? This reviewer is not sure the journey is worth the wait. The question is whether the reader cares enough to get that far. One realizes that the narrator's narcissism and intention for everyone in her life to notice her, to see her in her wounded state, is a metaphor for the narcissism and pathetic boredom of American culture in the 21st century. And here is where Zurawski gets to the reader. The other story: the young woman is visited by an angel, who bruises her. The outside story: young woman goes to college life is boring she eats ham for dinner she has a female lover they have sex, which is boring she goes to writing workshops, writes a story.

The Bruise by Magdalena Zurawski