ARGONAUT BOOKS

Christle's exacting rigor and ferocious curiosity are matched only by the utter eccentricity of her vision, the delicious and frankly peerless freshness of her idiom: "There is a difference between bones and a book," she writes, "but both have at their center a spine." What results is irreducibly human. IN THE RHODODENDRONS is vital consolation, amidst the amidst. It's a triumph, an instant classic. Christle has become one of our art's most urgent living practitionersKaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!I first fell in love with Heather Christle's writing in The Crying Book and her astonishing hybrid...Read More