Catherine Gallagher, Eggers Professor of English Literature at Berkeley, has written for Oyster Boy Review a brilliant study of Ravenna’s “The Damsel Fly” by Barbara Kremen (with illustrations by collagist Irwin Kremen), starting out with:
“All three of the works in Barbara Kremen’s collection The Damsel Fly and Other Storiesexplore the perils of changing perspectives. Rather like Jonathan Swift and other eighteenth-century writers who wanted readers to feel the disorienting effects of being cast into worlds far too large or far too small for them, Kremen zooms out to the gigantic and in to the microscopic to refresh our perception as well as our awareness of the world’s strangeness.”
It’s great to see a title that’s been out awhile still getting the attention it deserves. This has happened twice recently, just a bit ago for Harold Bowes’ “If nothing Else.” Check out these two at ravennapress.com.
