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Gwenda, Rodney

Gwenda, Rodney

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Author: Olivia Cronk

Publisher: Meekling Press (2024)

Olivia Cronk’s Gwenda, Rodney is an exquisitely genre-ambiguous “poetry novel” scintillating with art, ardor, and decay. It’s a book about reading novels, ekphrasis, and the gaze, transcribed in a mode as ethereal as air filling a garment left to hang. Inspired by theater, Dario Argento’s luscious horror aesthetics, the gaudy-spectacle-art of Toulouse-Lautrec’s paintings and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s films, and the feeling of reading novels like drinking endless water, Gwenda, Rodney, is an inspiration, an exhalation, a quivering ruby of obsession on display.