Comments on: Endless Reads Review at PANK: Zazen by Vanessa Veselka + Another Book Spine Poem

By: An Endless Year in Review | Schietree

An Endless Year in Review | Schietree — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 18:05:37 +0000

[...] Zazen by Vanessa Veselka was on the other hand an explosion, an earth-scorching revelation of words. I await her next works with the eagerness of a sailor’s wife, standing on a pier, watching a maelstrom wreck the waters. [...]

By: angela

angela — Fri, 18 May 2012 02:21:51 +0000

intrigued by your PANK review…added it to my goodreads. cheers ~

By: CJ Rice (@leapof)

CJ Rice (@leapof) — Thu, 17 May 2012 22:14:25 +0000

Her prose is clean and powerful and very current.

By: schietree

schietree — Thu, 17 May 2012 20:19:26 +0000

I’d love to read your review. I’ll go hunt out the link when I have a moment.

By: schietree

schietree — Thu, 17 May 2012 20:18:46 +0000

I kept re-reading what she had written because it was just so powerful. But I think a good writer can manage that throat-tightening feeling with any tense.

By: Joseph Dante

Joseph Dante — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:38:45 +0000

Loved Zazen! I actually wrote a review of it for Paste just last month because I enjoyed it so much too. Really hard to write about, but definitely one of the best books I’ve read this year.

By: CJ Rice (@leapof)

CJ Rice (@leapof) — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:56:17 +0000

Veselka’s prose is political and emotionally fierce. “They win; they just roll, pave and drive over everything that’s beautiful: babies, love and small birds. On summer nights with windows open I hear joints cracking like crickets.”

Makes me wonder if past tense ever tells a vivid story.