“I don't know anyone who has described that terrible yearning for ecstasy and immolation through music as lucidly as Sean Madigan Hoen in Songs Only You Know. Only a thorough initiate of the scene who also had some genius with language could summon the demotic yet electric voice for the job. If there is ruefulness, now, for the way he treated his body, his girlfriends, and his family, he wisely reprises in his book, in neon detail, the fever that once placed him in the same drunken boat with Iggy Pop, Rimbaud and Artaud.” IfsKnowsWayBookBodyJobsSongLanguageVoiceGeniusTerribleSceneDetailsPopsTreatedBoatGirlfriendEcstasyYearningElectricFeverThoroughInitiateSeanNeonArtaud Author:Jaimy Gordon
“Even in a crowded field, it is a rare pleasure to come across a prose stylist like Kellie Wells, whose intellect and language bid one another beautifully to a dance. She dares to be at play in the most unsettling questions of her day. Surely when the present generation of writers shakes down to its unique and irreplaceable voices, Kellie Wells will be one of them.” WellsPlayLanguageVoicePleasureGenerationsFieldsUniqueDareIntellectProseShakesCrowdedStylistIrreplaceable Author:Jaimy Gordon
