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Tucumcari

Tucumcari

Parks, Patrick

Paperback

Humor

ISBN10: 0997292466
ISBN13: 9780997292466
Publisher: Kernpunkt Press
Published: Mar 6 2018
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
A man wakes up one morning believing he has a wife who lives in Tucumcari, New Mexico. A wife he somehow remembers yet does not know. When he decides to find her, he embarks on a surreal journey through both landscape and memory. The reader travels with the narrator through sinking cities, his father's various jobs, government-designated atomic safe havens, motel rooms, cities made of only men, and interactions with people from his childhood including Boyd Delmarco, a famous radio personality whose lungs have turned to glass.

Patrick Parks, in this relentlessly quantum mechanical rendition of the novel, Tucumcari, combines the traumatic rhythmic keenings of Philip Glass's World Out of Balance or Einstein on the Beach with a deeply poignant Buster Keatonian deadpan. The book percolates and permeates through the entire electro-magnetic spectrum of mid-century modern dystopia. Tucumcariaccumulates emotional heft like the sad ash that falls, layer after extinction layer, through the book, predicting red weather that is general all over the many deserts you drift through. Before you know it, you are buried alive, heartsick and sunk up to your eyeballs by this masterful precipitate of murmuring meditation.

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