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Date Posted: 18:18:00 10/12/04 Tue
Author: Tarbaby
Author Host/IP: 68.91.91.43
Subject: I bought one of her chap books of prose
In reply to: volt 's message, "Jammelah IS talented, but a shrew nonetheless" on 00:02:47 10/08/04 Fri

I bought one of her chap books, her prose shines off the page, it seemed she did not have much to say but she did say it with tons of style..., but I was hoping it would have some of her Vienna street scenes, I kind of wish I had bought a book of her poetry. Thinking about a writer's eye, This I that sits and rites and reads, and about the " I" 's of the writers I love, my heroes, the me that sees the world through their eyes, tea or no tea anyone? I hope I get to read some of her mature work, say when she is in her fifties. but that is all time and chance, in the mean time I hope she never has the problems of a mid list author.

>Rereading Jam's essay (and having read other writings
>of hers, back when LK still had not become the
>micro-police state it is today), I admit I was
>mistaken in calling her writing that of a 10 grade
>failed cheerleader. She is really one of the best
>writers to appear on October Earth or LitKicks, in
>spite of her control freak 'tude and her subservience
>to Genghis Asher.
>
>Her writing is sort of Raymond Carver-esque, and a bit
>melancholy, sometimes with startling images you might
>encounter in a Flannery O Connor story. She writes
>bizarre first person reflective essays that are almost
>good, but still quite juvenile; though tragic, her
>essays are the sort of tragedy-lite of goth rock, of
>Anne Rice, of Wynona Ryder or Tim Burton movies.
>Unintentionally very frightening, ersatz tragedies,
>scarier for their kitchiness.
>
>So while I detest pretty much the entire LK project, I
>will admit that Jammelah Earle IS a real talent, a
>budding writer, not Virginia Woolfe or Faulkner, but
>unique and perhaps gifted. Hopefully she will get it
>together and break free of the Asherocracy and maybe
>succeed.

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