Dies: A Sentence

Fiction. Poetry. Introduction by Susan McCabe. DIES: A SENTENCE by Vanessa Place is a 117-page one-sentence novel about the coils of language and war unspooled in the dying breath of a pre- and post-scient World War I soldier. John Witte of the Northwest Review calls DIES "a marvel of sustained synergy " author Jim Krusoe describes the book as "dizzyingly complex compound and full of miraculous side trips as well " and novelist Doug Nufer heralds DIES as a "delightful tour de force of a hopelessly grim predicament." Place obliterates the line between victim and perpetrator subject and object rendering this human truth: in the death sentence of life there is still beauty. "Roll over dear Whitman " says Susan McCabe in her Introduction "Heres our new original."