num_pages: 90
description: Fiction. Dennis Baron's novella features an unnamed narrator at work on a research project whose exact nature and import he carefully guards. He develops a relationship with the family next door when they help him get rid of a rat in his apartment...a rat whose intrusion merely prefigures the intrusions to come of poetic, dream-like passages into the story's realistic framework. Dennis Barone is the author of SEPARATE OBJECTS, FORMS/FROMS, and ECHOES, among other books available from SPD, as well as the coeditor of the recent anthology THE ART OF PRACTICE: 45 CONTEMPORARY POETS.
language: English
title: Temple of the Rat
titlecomplete: Temple of the Rat
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Left Hand Books