Reviews

The Night Is a Mouth by Lisa Foad

caseythecanadianlesbrarian's review against another edition

3.0

Reading queer Torontonian Lisa Foad’s 2008 debut short story collection The Night is a Mouth has been one of my strangest and most difficult reading experiences. I started the book with high expectations: I loved the title and the evocative, haunting image it brought to mind; I thought Foad’s poem/essay in the queer issue of Poetry is Dead (reviewed here) was gorgeous and full of dazzling imagery. Also, I really loved the artwork (by Sonja Ahler) and the lettering on the cover (I totally judge books by their covers all the time, by the way, and I don’t see anything wrong with that). Imagine my frustration, then, when I began reading The Night is a Mouth and I just couldn’t get into it. I started reading it, and put it down. Then I started it again two weeks later, from the beginning again. I fully admit that at this point I am writing a review of this collection without having actually read it to the very end...

See the rest of my review on my blog: http://caseythecanadianlesbrarian.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/gorgeous-literary-camp-that-i-didnt-like-a-review-of-lisa-foads-the-night-is-a-mouth/