Stories and poetry by Lawrence Fixel
July 1, 1991 5.5 x 9 144 pages 978-0-918273-88-8
A dynamically shifting vision of the world made visible in intricate explorations that seem to recall Kafkas castle halls, and the twists and turns in Borgess labyrinth.
Utilizing the ancient tradition of the parable, Lawrence Fixel presents narrators in settings with which they are uncomfortable, in situations they dont understand, confronting a range of potential resolutions that somehow obliquely reflect the issues and values of our peculiar time and place.
With uncompromising curiosity and ferocious intelligence, Fixels essays, parables and prose poems take part the everyday world in order to examine its most basic building blocks, to turn them this way and that, to imagine how they might have been regarded in the time of the Pharaohs, or to conjure up a reality without them. The most insignificant object or acta shovel, a key, a knock on a doorbecomes the starting point for an exploration into the nature of existence itself.