Flemish

By Caroline Knox Description Reviews Caroline Knox’s eighth collection is a web of wholly original madhattery. Strange, inquisitive, formally experimental—Flemish showcases the agility that comes from a lifetime of serious language play and the skill of a master craftsperson. Utilizing spoken vernaculars, technical language, and referential prose, Knox is writing at the top of her game, and reading her is a pleasure not to be missed. Knox dresses her speakers and her cacophony of subjects (sister, otters, Dickinson, Mary Wesley) in whatever clothes history hands them (or she conjures up), letting them act out their roles on a spindle of wordplay and pathos.Publishers WeeklyBy turns funny, esoteric, and absurdist, Flemish is also positively enthralling, an energetic paean to language, the object, and the history of language and of objects.Seth Abramson, Huffington PostCaroline Knox can imagine that any passing idiom or aesthetic ideal might, some day, be put to good use...[sh