All the Noise in the Room by Michael C. Keith
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Extraordinary for its genre-busting and superb poetic conceits, All the Noise in the Room reminds us why Michael C. Keith is one of the foremost practitioners of domestic fabulism in the United States. Droll, stark and always surprising it is the haunting and indelible moments of humour l’noir that make his writing both bracing and comic. Using a range of forms including fragments, micro-fiction, prose poetry and epigrams, All the Noise in the Room experiments with imagined empathies and entropies. A prolific writer, Keith explores the ramifications of neoliberalism on the poetic word, and it is unforgettable.
—Cassandra Atherton, author of The Leftovers and co-author (with Paul Harrington) of Prose Poetry: An Introduction.
Precise and poignant, All the Noise in the Room presents moving pieces that provoke thought, surprise, and depth into the human condition. Some are quiet, some not: certainly not noisy (like the “noise” in the room). Colorful and moving, this collection is a must.
—Kim Chinquee, author of Snowdog and Wetsuit.
With over 20 collections to his credit, including Insomnia 11, Quiet Geography and Bodies in Recline, Michael C. Keith is a proven master of satirical prose glimpses, each complete in itself, and each an increment in his larger vision. His themes are everyday hypocrisy, vanities, self-deception, marital abrasion, aging, and morality, and at his best he recalls Swift, Pascal, and David Markson. One of my favorites in All the Noise in the Room is “Maybe You Want to Be Gone” (where surrounded by loved ones, the dying person’s final expression becomes one of aggravation).
—DeWitt Henry, author of Restless for Words: Poems.
In his new collection, All the Noise in the Room, Michael C. Keith shows he is a writer who peels away everything but the seed of each story. In the best of them, that seed seems to possess a soul, a quality that will not only surprise readers but hold them for longer than their brevity might suggest they will.
—Gary Finke, co-editor of Best Microfiction and author of The Corridors of Longing.
All the Noise in the Room
by Michael C. Keith
$22.95, paperback, 250 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1-968422-08-0
