Competition judge Anne Barngrover says I was struck from the first sentence by the crystalline narrative voice--sometimes uncanny, sometimes weird, but always precise, unflinching, and painfully self-aware--and the experimentation with form as a way to dig deeper and question ideas of religion, family, place, community, masculinity, death, and the self.
These essays, and their narrator, wouldn't shake from me after I read them.
I wholeheartedly recommend Baptizing the Dead and Other Jobs.
Bauhan Pub Baptizing the dead and other jobs: essays, paperback/michael william palmer
