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In Playtime, William Fuller offers dispatches from a strange world. Through deadpan memoranda and dark parables, he addresses uncommon topics from witchcraft to vegetable life. Yet his focus often swerves from recognizable phenomena to the unobservable edges: "We are always searching in vain. Something moves, making us aware that once we were more aware." And in that striving, shared between writer and reader, Fuller suggests that this strange world is decidedly ours.

About the Author :

William Fuller grew up in Barrington, Illinois, and received his PhD from the University of Virginia in 1983. Since his first book, byt (1989), he has published eight volumes of poetry. He worked as Principal Advisor to the trust department at The Northern Trust Company in Chicago until his retirement.



Review :

"Books of the caliber of Hallucination come along rarely. Books that both puzzle and dazzle at first, then prove better and better with each re-reading. Books with a passion to get the spirit right. Ladies and gentlemen, a masterpiece."--Calvin Bedient, Boston Review, reviewing a previous edition or volume

"Does mist form in reaction to what you dream? asks Fuller (Hallucination) in this challenging, slippery, and dryly comic collection. 'I will use whatever I have learned to attack this question, but first I want to sit here and watch the future arrive from the past.' The book is filled with entangling propositions of the sort that propel an author out of cult status . . . Fuller has an exacting intelligence and a drive to find abstract answers to very large questions, even if those answers never come . . . Unrelenting in his attempts to make the language new, and at times demandingly philosophical, Fuller has insights that pop like geysers from the spare, strange landscape of his diction."--Publishers Weekly

". . . sometimes he sounds like he's trying to recount a dream, and sometimes he sounds like he's carefully wending his way through a police deposition, and sometimes he sounds like he is speaking to a very precocious but somewhat literal-minded child, and sometimes he sounds like he's trying to convince you he isn't crazy, or maybe it's that he thinks you are crazy and he is trying to convince you that he understands, please come down from the roof, everything will be fine."--Raymond McDaniel, Constant Critic


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780990340737
  • Publisher: Flood Editions
  • Publisher Imprint: Flood Editions
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 112
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0990340732
  • Publisher Date: 19 Jun 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N


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