Opening Lines, Stephen Bett, Turret House, 2025, $8.00
About Opening Lines:
Through 19 novels and metafictions, each poem in this collection riffs, literally, on its subject texts' opening line(s).
An innovative, sassy, but deadly and pointedly serious tour through late 20th and early 21st centuries' fiction from the Americas and from Western, Central and Eastern Europe. A mash-up of signifiers and signifieds, numerological flakiness, and PoWorld's bland, Mega-church hegemonies--all encountering, in the midst of our present day cocktail-hour capitalism, some of the truly great novelists of our times.