Ya-Honk! by Brian Swann

Ya-Honk! Goes the Wild Ganderor, Covid Divagations Here be divagations, wanderings through Covid-stricken Manhattan streets woven together with accounts and excursions through the mind’s spaces, memories real and imagined, incidents and adventures comic and sad in a world off-kilter, a mix of marvelous and concrete, quotidian and outre all playing against a pandemic background of “Time, the chorus” while the book shrinks and expands, now luxurious as prose-poem, now expansive as fiction or essay, sheltering in place or moving through landscapes foreign and domestic, all held together by Covid floating in nervous air while the mind tells stories like Scheherazade, trying to trick the tyrant into a change of heart and let up, set us loose again to wander where the sun never sets and Ya-Honk! goes the wild gander. Praise for Ya-Honk! Goes the Wild Gander It’s an amazing book. These prose meditations circle, engage, even deflect the looming presence and isolations of the Covid year.