Monk

By Martin Nakell

Fiction. "Am I inside the poem?" asks Monk, narrator of Nakell's new novel. Each and every gesture, every advance this questing Monk makes, involves itself in a grammar of growing awareness. Monk's achievements may seem inconsequential to a reader outside 12th c. Asian monasteries and retreats this Monk wanders among, yet through the performances and interactivities of their inhabitants, their subjected-to status emerges as an embodiment of clearer subjectivity. MONK symbolizes commitment to a world shorn of its responsibilities by a commanding objectivity where certainty may by itself assert the final lone question: "Had I become so sick as I had become in order to nurture the idea of healing?"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1941550312
• ISBN13: 9781941550311
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"