August 19th, 2009 / 8:46 pm
 Presses

FENCES by BEN BROOKS

fences

ben brooks wrote a book called FENCES.  fugue state press published it.  james chapman (editor) mailed it to me recently.  it is fucking righteous.  i read it in like two hours.  i couldnt stop.   most important to me was my ability to concentrate on it.  lately i have a bad attention span but this book booted that lack in the throat.  FENCES contains some of the strongest lines i have read in a while.  it’s not a book for someone looking for a traditional story or anything.  it’s more like a somewhat-narrative poem.  but for real, it’s so well done.  you can feel the filth of solitude from the very beginning where the narrator is “in a hole” where “nicotine eyes” stare at him.  the book then seems to progress by branching off endlessly into different tracts of hopeless love, self-hatred and general dismay.  this book is the message left by a burning tree blowing ash against the side of a garage where inside a man huffs gas to feel like a king.  the biggest success of this book to me was how disconnected it was while remaining engaging.  fuck.  good job ben.  don’t kill yourself yet.

here is some information on the fugue state website.

here is an exceprt on the fugue state website.

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18 Comments

  1. August 20th, 2009 / 4:07 am daniel bailey—

      i wanna read dat

  2. August 20th, 2009 / 12:07 am daniel bailey—

      i wanna read dat

  3. August 20th, 2009 / 8:53 am chris—

      Ben Brooks is my baby

  4. August 20th, 2009 / 4:53 am chris—

      Ben Brooks is my baby

  5. August 20th, 2009 / 11:48 am camilla—

      woo

  6. August 20th, 2009 / 7:48 am camilla—

      woo

  7. August 20th, 2009 / 3:34 pm DJ Berndt—

      Ben Brooks is a good and faithful child.

  8. August 20th, 2009 / 11:34 am DJ Berndt—

      Ben Brooks is a good and faithful child.

  9. August 21st, 2009 / 5:05 pm brandon—

      damn, any way i can get it for free

  10. August 21st, 2009 / 1:05 pm brandon—

      damn, any way i can get it for free

  11. August 21st, 2009 / 7:20 pm sam pink—

      brandon i can mail you my copy. we finna spread some love. ema il me you bitch

  12. August 21st, 2009 / 3:20 pm sam pink—

      brandon i can mail you my copy. we finna spread some love. ema il me you bitch

  13. August 21st, 2009 / 10:36 pm chapman—

      no sam pink

      i’ll send brandon one just for being brandon

  14. August 21st, 2009 / 6:36 pm chapman—

      no sam pink

      i’ll send brandon one just for being brandon

  15. August 22nd, 2009 / 10:35 am Derek—

      Nice cover, is that the chick from the Blair Witch Project?

  16. August 22nd, 2009 / 2:35 pm Derek—

      Nice cover, is that the chick from the Blair Witch Project?

  17. October 12th, 2009 / 4:55 pm rebecca kelly—

      i love this book ben almost as much as my love you. i live for a day when we can be husband and wife, happy for enternity. to you i give my heart, my life and my soul. becky, your princess of darkness x

  18. October 12th, 2009 / 12:55 pm rebecca kelly—

      i love this book ben almost as much as my love you. i live for a day when we can be husband and wife, happy for enternity. to you i give my heart, my life and my soul. becky, your princess of darkness x