Genoa

✍ Scribed by Paul Metcalf

• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 201 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1566894085

✦ Synopsis

"[Genoa] invites us to pass our minds down a new but ancient track, to become, ourselves, both fact and fiction, and to discover something true about the geography of time."--William Gass, The New York Times

"Genoa is a spectacular confrontation with Melville's work, the journals of Columbus and molecular biology--all folded into a hallucinatory narrative about two brothers and their different paths through the American century."--Publishers Weekly

"Much like his great-grandfather, Herman Melville, Paul Metcalf brings an extraordinary diversity of materials into the complex patterns of analogy and metaphor, to affect a common term altogether brilliant in its imagination."--Robert Creeley

"A unique work of historical and literary imagination, eloquent and powerful. I know of nothing like it."--Howard Zinn

First published in 1965, Genoa is Paul Metcalf's purging of the burden of his relationship...