The Choreographer

Poetry. "This terrific collection of short narratives--prose poems, parables, fables, stories, extended jokes--is a pleasure from start to finish. While some pieces, like 'No-Man's-Land' and 'Companionship, ' recall the mesmerizing creepiness of early Ian McEwan, others suggest the creative exuberance of, say, Donald Barthelme. But Fleming's world is a unique universe of his own making, defined by a poet's sense of language and a novelist's take on story. Readers will have a blast traveling through this wondrous place."—Terence Winch"All through THE CHOREOGRAPHER, we encounter our own humanness in mirrors both dark and bright, as Gerald Fleming reveals us to ourselves. Each of these pieces feels unexpected yet somehow inevitable. I love their mordant wit, their sparseness and precision, their relentless truthfulness. This book is filled with music, and Fleming's lyrical mastery is nowhere clearer than in the stunning sequence at its center--prose poems sprung from fifteenth-century Sephardic songs that seduce us into his imagined world of irresolvable ache, foolishness, and joy."--Joan Larkin