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Dark Coast Press, Seattle, 2010. Softcover, 154 pp. 1st printing (stated), plus a full number line. Trade paperback. The author's debut, an experimental novella. The strange title is the full name of a character in the book. Near fine condition.
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- Title
- An Dantomine Eerly
- Author
- J R D Middleton
- Publisher
- Dark Coast Press
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0984428801
- ISBN 13
- 9780984428809
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
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As the Irish-American poet Dallin lay dying he recalls the surreal geography and traumatic events that lead to his end. An absence in a wind-beaten house suggests a past but somehow still-looming tragedy; vacancy fills a ghostly barroom and the campus of a condemned university; city streets and desolated forests are populated by no one except the formulations of Dallins own mind. The ailed poet and his beautiful, haunting wife Aìsling flee an obscure political persecution that culminates in her planned murder. The impact of her death afflicts Dallin in ways he cannot comprehend and spirals him into his meeting with the mythic celestial escort, An Dantomine Eerly.
An Dantomine Eerly is fine experimental writing, using narrative techniques, dream-world symbolism, and a poetic style of prose that takes up John Banvilles admittance to blend poetry and fiction into some new form. The novel itself is a re-conception of the 17th century Irish poetic form of the aisling, meaning dream vision or vision poem. As Dallin confronts his moment of death, the book assembles itself as a collage of the affinities, falsehoods, and absurdities of memory and reality.
Comparisons to pre-discovery Chuck Palahnuik (Fight Club) and early David Foster Wallace (The Broom Of The System) have been made, as well as the influence of older, experimental works. The result is a stylized exploration of the infinite world through the microscope of Middletons ill-fated narrator, and above all, a promising debut.
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About the Author
JARRET RICHARD DEVLIN MIDDLETON was born in Boston, Massachussetts in 1985, and spent most his life at his home in seacoast New Hampshire.
His first novel, An Dantomine Eerly, is an unorthodox narrative that follows the last self-revealing thoughts of the Irish-American poet Dallin as he passes into death. The book was released in March of 2010 by Dark Coast Press in Seattle.
From 20022005 Jarret acted as organizer, spokesperson, and editor for many radical left groups. His essay, An Open Letter Concerning The Student Left, was his last political piece from that time and was published in Slingshot Magazine (#87, Summer 2005) and released in a large print-run booklet.
Jarret studied writing at Concordia University and the University of New Hampshire, leaving college after two years to travel the U.S. and write. His early works include: Station Wagon Nightmares, a travel chronicle of six months on the road, and the chapbooks Misery State Veterans and I-LXIV, along with screenplay collaborations in New York. Middletons work is lyrical, abstract, erudite and playful, strictly adhering to a belief that literature is best not when it is "about" experience, but is experience itself. He lives in Seattle, WA.
JARRET RICHARD DEVLIN MIDDLETON was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1985. He has studied writing at Concordia University and the University of New Hampshire, and written on the road in the U.S. while living in New Hampshire, Boston, New York City, Montréal, and Philadelphia. An Dantomine Eerly is his first novel.
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