The front matter, dead souls

de Leslie Scalapino

"This extraordinary new book is essay-fiction-poetry, an experiment in form, "a serial novel for publication in the newspaper" that collapses the distinction between documentary and fiction. Loosely set in Los Angeles, the book scrutinizes our image-making, producing extreme and vivid images -- hyena, Muscle Beach in Venice, the Supreme Court, subway rides -- in order for them to be real."--Back cover.