David Brennan

Not since the Book of Ecclesiastes has such litany been deployed to smack dab us with a wall of words. In The White Visitation, David Brennan pressure treats language, syntax, grammar, content into a layered labyrinthine quilted fabric of strata. One doesn’t so much as read as one peels, strips, skins the text—a sonic archeology, a narrative dig. Nothing new under the sun? Don’t count on it. The White Visitation is the plasma at the sun’s very core. —Michael Martone