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Front Porch Book Reviews
Issue 1.0
- Scar Tissue by Charles
Wright
Charles Wright has long been recognized as a modern-day poet-prophet,
a mystic trapped in a man’s body who shares his wisdom with seemingly
no struggle. In his latest collection, Scar
Tissue, Wright continues to build upon an already daunting
bibliography by combining the man-in-the-world qualities of his
early work with further development of the spirituality he has
fostered most furtively since his 1997 Pulitzer-winning collection,
Black Zodiac.
[read full review]
- Smonk by Tom Franklin
Woe to the faint of heart! The weak in constitution!
Tom Franklin’s second novel, Smonk, may be the most bloody
and profane book this side of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.
And while the novel’s sundry perversions are enough to make Humbert
Humbert blush, Smonk maintains a rare laugh-out-loud,
read passages to your friends, humor.
[read full review]
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