From: "Benito Vergara" <bvergara@sfsu.edu>

[Someone had asked about "Dhalgren" earlier,

It seems like a fairly straightforward narrative, except these odd moments are occurring more and more often. I can't go into detail about what these "odd moments" are -- I'd have to quote them to fully describe them, and that would be spoiling it -- but they essentially made me re-read the sentence, wondering if I got it right. Sometimes I'd read entire sections and wonder if I'd actually read them before, as if my bookmark was misplaced.

After reading "Dhalgren" ten or so times over twenty or so years, I still have that reaction. Years after reading it for the first time, I read his memoir, "The Motion of Light in Water," and much of his output of fiction clicked into focus. He's written an amazing body of work, from some really tender and beautiful stuff to "Hogg" and "Equinox." And I'm still waiting for "The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities," damn it. William Crump