Garden-Body. stands out because it combines prose poetry and dreamlike fable. Lev's story unfolds in surrealist fragments of bodily strangeness, and the book's hybrid nature; poetry and story, the grotesque and the tender, the strange and the emotionally evocative, will appeal to readers who are familiar with surrealism as well as a general audience.
The contemporary surrealist movement is alive and well today. However, a lot of the work produced lacks appeal to a more general audience because it leans so heavily on abstraction. Because Garden-Body. offers a plot and emotional arc in addition to its surrealist elements and abstractions, it bridges the gap between the experimental and the accessible.
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