Four Way Books, 2012 Paper: 978-1-884800-97-9 Library of Congress Classification PS3603.R893G58 2012 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Fierce and fearless, The Glimmering Room beckons readers down into the young speaker’s dark underworld, and because we are seduced by Cruz’s startling imagery and language rich with “Death’s outrageous music,” we follow willingly. Peopled with “ambassadors from the Netherworld”—the orphaned and abused, the lost and addicted—Cruz leads us through this “traveling minstrel show / Called girlhood—” which is at once tragic and magical.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
CYNTHIA CRUZ is the author of Ruin and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Kingdom of Dirt • Eleven • Nocturnal • Strange Gospels • Strange Gospels • The Great Destroyer • Strange Gospels • Strange Gospels • Strange Gospels • Theater of War • Strange Gospels • Strange Gospels • Strange Gospels • Strange Gospels • The Great Destroyer • Plush • Strange Gospels • Chronic • New York State • Diagnosis • The Unheard Music • New York State (4) • Self Portrait • California • Narrenschiff • New York State (5) • New York State (3) • New York State (2) • Stages of Disaster • Notes on the Disaster • Star • Death Star • New York State (6) • What God Gave Me, or Instructions on How to Live a Nomadic Life • Breaking Glass • Stages of Disaster • Taxonomy • Werewolf or Ghost • The Going Home Song • Strange Gospels • Ohio Darling • Strange Gospels • Strange Gospels • Strange Gospels • Strange Gospels • Strange Gospels • The Great Destroyer • Forming • White Angel Pharmacy • Wish Fulfillment • The Glimmering Room • Molotov • Shepherd • Inheritance or Amber Schloss • Gone, Galore
Fierce and fearless, The Glimmering Room beckons readers down into the young speaker’s dark underworld, and because we are seduced by Cruz’s startling imagery and language rich with “Death’s outrageous music,” we follow willingly. Peopled with “ambassadors from the Netherworld”—the orphaned and abused, the lost and addicted—Cruz leads us through this “traveling minstrel show / Called girlhood—” which is at once tragic and magical.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
CYNTHIA CRUZ is the author of Ruin and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Kingdom of Dirt • Eleven • Nocturnal • Strange Gospels • Strange Gospels • The Great Destroyer • Strange Gospels • Strange Gospels • Strange Gospels • Theater of War • Strange Gospels • Strange Gospels • Strange Gospels • Strange Gospels • The Great Destroyer • Plush • Strange Gospels • Chronic • New York State • Diagnosis • The Unheard Music • New York State (4) • Self Portrait • California • Narrenschiff • New York State (5) • New York State (3) • New York State (2) • Stages of Disaster • Notes on the Disaster • Star • Death Star • New York State (6) • What God Gave Me, or Instructions on How to Live a Nomadic Life • Breaking Glass • Stages of Disaster • Taxonomy • Werewolf or Ghost • The Going Home Song • Strange Gospels • Ohio Darling • Strange Gospels • Strange Gospels • Strange Gospels • Strange Gospels • Strange Gospels • The Great Destroyer • Forming • White Angel Pharmacy • Wish Fulfillment • The Glimmering Room • Molotov • Shepherd • Inheritance or Amber Schloss • Gone, Galore