Reviewed by Erik Kennedy in Landfall Review Online.
For what is essentially a bunch of smashed-up china in a pile, the prism and the rose looks remarkably good. It reads very easily, and even enjoyably. As you can imagine, it’s not simple to quote this kind of writing, even for review purposes. Just say a bunch of film lines in your head and you’ll be halfway there. Other, non-film sources are sampled, too. A book about the Canadian painter Agnes Martin, for example. I had to laugh when I got to ‘REM’, which is almost certainly a copyright violation—it’s just the lyrics to the song ‘Losing My Religion’ with a fun Easter egg of Aram Saroyan’s poem ‘lighght’ smuggled into the famous Michael Stipe line: ‘That’s me in the spotlighght / Losing my religion’.
