ROSE

by Marilyn Hoff ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 12, 1968

A rose is a wild rose is a ROSE or the Regions of Spiritual Expansion which are attained via a psychedelic cube, and this second novel graduates from the dormitory in Dink's Blues (1966) to a pad where the megrims of its two alternating narrators become ""Jesus Weeps"" or ""I feel like an abandoned sewer."" Along with insets taking place in a hospital where Jane is a nurse's aide (she's the only one who seems to be making an honest living around here), there are monologorrhetic exchanges between Martin and Jane after Hotspur, yes Hotspur, is displaced. Well in between banging and grooving and splitting, there's an occasional incident: the pregnancy of Madelyn--Martin's casualty; the death of Jane's mother ""who first grew the rushes-ho when Father sang her one-ho deep in her warm black womb."" And lots of portentous talk which they rightly call antimatter or metaphysical bull--""As it really descended, irrevocable and transient time."" Slow time--a tripticket to tedium--and Jesus weeps from ""a stricken beard, dissolving my blood with spit-wetted shirt."" An easy option for the razor and Barbasol.

Pub Date: Feb. 12, 1968

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1968

Categories: FICTION