The Village on Horseback

Writings from the prize-winning author of The Divers’ Game : “Reading Ball feels a little like stumbling into an M.C. Escher print.” — Chicago Tribune This volume by experimental writer Jesse Ball is a philosophical recasting of myth and legend. Employing an eerie narrative simplicity, these always-unpredictable poems are cautionary tales of the oppressiveness of monolithic culture on the development of artistic, philosophical, and political leadership. Alternating from the personal to the publi