Recommendations:
Via Negativa by Daniel Hornsby
A retired priest is on his way to visit old friends and settle old scores when he befriends a wounded wolf. Haunted by his passivity, and how he was not able to help a friend when his help was needed most, he makes his way across the country, giving his attention to the wounded wolf, a physical burden to match the soul burden he carries. Episodic with wonderfully weird characters, including our Prince-loving priest, it reminds me a bit of one of my favorite novels, The End of Vandalism, by Tom Drury, except where Drury took his episodic novel in the circles of a small Iowa town, Hornsby has a necessarily arrow-like trajectory, his being a road trip novel. The ending leaves you with the same ache in Father Dan’s throat:
“I should have lit a fire under them, steered them toward justice, holiness and truth. We should have been stewards of our dying planet. We should have fed the hungry, visited those in prison, healed the sick. We should have taken better care of one another.”
I asked Dan Hornsby to send me his favorite phone photo:
“A yard near our duplex in Midtown Memphis. I pass a lot of cluttered yards like this on my walks—some have retired mannequins on proud display, others are home to wild herds of untrimmed chia pets. These porches have a lot of Southern flavor. This little Godzilla is missing a claw that, by the look of it, could be fired as a projectile. I hope the tiny claw finds its way back home someday.”- Dan Hornsby
And here is his band, Beauty School, with a new single, “Pink Lincoln”.
Here is one of my favorite covers, James McNew of Dump (and a little band called Yo La Tengo) doing Prince’s “When You Were Mine”
Greenwood Cemetary, fuji xpro2 image on itype film, using Polaroid lab
Until next time…
Adalena
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-Adalena Kavanagh