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A review by prismotron
I Wished by Dennis Cooper
dark
emotional
sad
5.0
"drawings can only hope to nail a character's resemblance, and they're just distractions from whatever wish was dying in the writer when he typed it."
i read 4/5 of the george miles cycle last year, but the absolute State i was put into was enough to require an indefinite hiatus from his work until i was stable enough to finish. not stable. maybe more eager to be shaken. pairing this with period was perfect, it heartwrenchingly expands on the most compelling aspect of the meta-narrative in the final book of the cycle: having to capture someone who is a memory. subjecting your devotion to an audience that can't fathom its depth. i don't remember where i read that grief is just love with nowhere to go. when it becomes so massive a weight it needs to live in art. my optimism poisons me to believe it can die there, too. maybe not. worth a shot.
this book is a gutting. i'll be thinking of the titular chapter and thialh for a while, probably weeping about them even longer. luv you dennis.
i read 4/5 of the george miles cycle last year, but the absolute State i was put into was enough to require an indefinite hiatus from his work until i was stable enough to finish. not stable. maybe more eager to be shaken. pairing this with period was perfect, it heartwrenchingly expands on the most compelling aspect of the meta-narrative in the final book of the cycle: having to capture someone who is a memory. subjecting your devotion to an audience that can't fathom its depth. i don't remember where i read that grief is just love with nowhere to go. when it becomes so massive a weight it needs to live in art. my optimism poisons me to believe it can die there, too. maybe not. worth a shot.
this book is a gutting. i'll be thinking of the titular chapter and thialh for a while, probably weeping about them even longer. luv you dennis.