The Disguise of Events

Prose Poetry. In THE DISGUISE OF EVENTS, a chaos of assorted experiences and references resolve themselves into a heap of strange voices and conundrums. Outsiders and critics chime in mercilessly like a rowdy crowd awaiting an execution; scenes stand in for other scenes in eclectic flashes--nymphs are forced to inhabit body after body--all as if to assert that "choice remains ever out of our control." "The sentences link and make a puzzle or a map or a path in the wilderness, nevertheless a familiar wilderness turned strange"--Peter Ganick. Dennis Barone's work has appeared in the Chicago Review, The Prose Poem: An International Journal, and Quarter After Eight among others; in 1992 he held the Thomas Jefferson Chair, a distinguished lecturing award in the Netherlands. He currently teaches at St. Joseph's College in Connecticut.