Aviary Slag
Subtitle: Stories
Publisher: Fiction Collective 2
Published: March 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780932511928
Subjects: Modern fiction; General; Fiction / Short Stories (single author); Fiction - General; Fiction
Description: Aviary Slag is a lucid, lysergic antidote to the so-called profundities of "quality fiction." An assemblage of intricately interlocked mini-epics, moral tales, and porn tracts, it is a definitively post-postmodern work. Jacques Servin plunders and smelts the traditional forms, then fashions out of the slag a brilliant poetics of power and eros. In both form and content, Aviary Slag provides hard-hitting metaphors for the death of deforming constraints.

It is a book for the volatile end of a century that has smelted and recast almost everything.