A Review of Worsted by Garielle Lutz – The Collidescope
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The mitosis of misery, the cloning of loneliness.
“Listen long enough to other people and all you’ll hear is the story you’ve only just now stopped telling yourself.” Garielle Lutz’s corpus is a sphere turned inside out. No matter where you enter, you’re at the center. Perhaps it’s a way of saying she has no minor works. Each volume, each story, is part of the Work, a monolith of marmoreal and borderline surreal sentences. Every sentence is the center too, which can be, paradoxically enough, a lonely place. We are all our centers, and everyone else’s edges. Nevertheless, alwaysthemore, these lonely sentences can’t help but aggregate into para
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