The End of the Image : The Moth and the Cat in David Brooks's "Grief" and Virginia Woolf's "the Death of the Moth" single work   essay  
Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 The End of the Image : The Moth and the Cat in David Brooks's "Grief" and Virginia Woolf's "the Death of the Moth"
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'The chapel, and not the church, is where the funeral takes place in "Grief," a short story from David Brooks's 'Napoleon's Roads'. Because the chapel isn't used much, being less grand than the church and located inside the walls of the cemetery, it stinks of mice droppings and requires sweeping-out the day before. Here, on the pews before the open casket of Katia's Nona, dead from a fall that left the right side of her face an open wound, is where "Grief" begins, and where it ends. Nona, the death mask, her old and broken face repeated, perhaps like a Janus-face, the bookends of the story in between.'  (Publication abstract)

 

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    y separately published work icon Southerly Festschrift : David Brooks vol. 78 no. 1 2018 15258682 2018 periodical issue

    'This issue of Southerly pays tribute to David Brooks, who is retiring as editor after two decades’ stewardship. It includes poetry, fiction, essays and memoir that interweave readings of David’s work with accounts of the various literary communities that David has worked in over four decades from Canberra to North America, Perth, Slovenia, Sydney and now, Katoomba. Together, these pieces create a world of a very specific kind, one populated by words and word people and the currents between them in specific times and places. They also enable us to draw out recurrent themes and practices.

    'The issue is a tribute and a celebration of a creative literary life. We are reminded of the etymology of the word text, from weaving. The issue shows one remarkable textual practice that weaves through the literary page and daily life to community and culture, including this journal. The issue also includes unthemed work across all categories including reviews.' (Editorial introduction)

         2018     pg. 244-256
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  • Grief David Brooks , 2016 single work prose
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