W’re excited about Between Appear and Disappear
But we’re not the only ones
“An unforgettable and perfect book.”
–Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan
“The blood of Mai’s ancestors run through her syllables. She takes photographs of sentences she abandoned in childhood—that loss of memory, that theme of what photography exposes. Written in the breath of a man in love, a novel, a poem, a photo album, this delirium of river language is finally a treatise on writing. ‘Her breath remains in my mouth.’ She told him the Vietnamese legend of a story that never begins, darker than any darkness when her family pushes their unsteady boat into the water. They fear arriving as much as they fear drowning. ‘Every word is a goodbye.’ She escapes sentences. Her body lay against him like moonlight. Doug Rice has written a beautiful- beyond-words American River.”
–Sharon Doubiago, author of My Father’s Love, Love in the Streets, and Hard Country
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…John [Gardner] taught me to see in other ways, through other art practices. John painted as a way of seeing more slowly, more intimately. I have used photography in that way in my life. To understand something about the negative space of photography and the negative space that can be made vivid in a sentence.
– From an interview with Doug Rice by Joe Milazzo, at Entropy