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SPRAWL

By (author) Danielle Dutton, Afterword by Renee Gladman

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â€œSPRAWL in fact does not sprawl at all; rather, it radiates with control and fresh, strange reflection.â€ â€”Bookforum â€œReads as if Gertrude Stein channeled Alice B. Toklas writing an Arcades Project set in contemporary suburbia.â€ â€”The Believer When Danielle Duttonâ€™s SPRAWL first broke upon the world in 2010, critics likened it to collage, a poetics of the suburbs, a literal unpacking of et cetera. This updated edition, with a new afterword by Renee Gladman, reopens the space of SPRAWLâ€™s â€œfierce, careful compositionâ€â€”as Bookforum wroteâ€”â€œwhich changes the ordinary into the wonderful and odd.â€ Today I fell asleep in the tall grass near the old train station. It was a complete picture. A fashionable park. Yet the picture had its sordid and selfish aspect. I canâ€™t seem to say what I mean, Mrs. Barbauld, but with some urgency I mean to inform you what a triumph the big city has become. I am a secular individual but even I can feel the shift in the horizon utterly alien to the constitution of things, the habitual. Sincerely, etc. I move in shade on the edge of a parking lot under walnut trees in the early morning around the edge of a curve in an accidental manner. I walk the sidewalk and ripple the surface of it. From this condition I have a view of the world. Danielle Dutton is the author of Margaret the First, SPRAWL, and Attempts at a Life. Her writing has also appeared or is forthcoming in The Paris Review, Harperâ€™s, The White Review, Fence, BOMB, and others. She is on the faculty of the writing program at Washington University in St. Louis and is co-founder and editor of the feminist press Dorothy, a publishing project.