Sleight of Fancy (Paperback)

Fiction. Texture Chapbook Series #21. First published in 1995 as OEUVRES, this newly reprinted edition tells a single story of a man and woman who have a chance meeting in a bookstore and discover a mutual interest in the early 20th-century poet/boxer Arthur Cravan. Cravan, an inspiration to the Dadaists and Surrealists, disappeared in Mexico in 1917. The man and woman embark on a relationship, and set about translating Cravan's work-with strange and unpredictable results.Text, like an archetypal myth, informs the structure of the main character's life. But texts have an ending and when this one runs out, that character's life is diminished. This is a subtle and haunting work -- Taproot Reviews. Stapled chapbook.