ext_6238 ([identity profile] coalescent.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] sovay 2005-11-01 11:53 pm (UTC)

Another review, this time by Rich Horton, from the latest Locus (pp58-9). I'm not going to type up the whole thing, but:
Sonya Taafe is a writer of some of the most intense and image-drenched prose around. Line by long, exquisite line her writing is desperate and involving. She made her first major impression on me as a poet--and she may be the best poet working in the sf genre right now. But she has also been publishing short stories all over the place, often on mythical or traditioanl fantastical themes but always individual and always centred on a central character's obsession. [...] Singing Innocence and Experience is an excellent introduction to Taffe's work. [...] I don't have the space to describe each story, but each is a heady brew. The poems as similarly striking. As I said, perhaps the stories cluster around too similar emotional poles, and perhaps at times they go on a bit too long, but they remain fascinating, and the collection is at once fine work and a promise of even better to come.
Sounds pretty good to me. :) His favourite stories were: 'Constellations, Conjunctions'; 'Featherweight'; 'Till Human Voices Wake Us'; and 'A Ceiling of Amber, a Pavement of Pearl'.

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