It should not be so hard to write both poetry and fiction. Both arts, after all, make use of the same materials, words and punctuation. Poems...
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This novel reads like a delta blues song. Haunting and beautiful, it sucks you in and the first paragraph. It sits you down and says "listen. hear. feel." Put the words to a guitar tune and you got yourself a hit. Loved it.
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The Motel Life: A Novel (P.S.) by Willy Vlautin
jjohnk, November 6, 2010
This novel reads like a delta blues song. Haunting and beautiful, it sucks you in and the first paragraph. It sits you down and says "listen. hear. feel." Put the words to a guitar tune and you got yourself a hit. Loved it.(24 of 49 readers found this comment helpful)