kylefwill's review
5.0
The Communicating Vessels offers two grief sequences in memoriam to Mayröcker’s late husband, the poet Ernst Jandl. Mayröcker’s experimental (non)style, a kind of heavily recursive diaristic stenography, is singular and enthralling, and formally probes the limits of sense in order to get closer to the reality of mourning. It is a beautiful thing to behold, the entirety of which kept me on the edge of tears. Her death this year is an incredible loss for world literature, but the continued effort of bringing her to the English-reading audience should be celebrated.
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