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"""A book about reading the unreadable, and seeking meaning where it can't be found, THE GRID resists neat conclusions and hyperbole in a way that feels true to its subject. [...] The deadpan, dreamlike prose-poems - surreal-ish if not surrealist - reminded me of Ian Seed, and of Kafka's short fables."" -- TRISTRAM FANE SAUNDERS, The Telegraph ""Grids hover. Non-directional. A buzz of light, not sound. Disembodied. Painters muse over the synchrony of grids. Their resistance to time. As if by miracle THE GRID manages to conjure a body for the grid in the name of Alice Kober, professor of Latin and mistress of classical languages, many long dead. The linearity of Linear B, a script deprived of sound, preserved in the fiery destruction of the Palace of Knossos, defies the synchrony of the grid. In THE GRID, Eli Payne Mandel emerges from the holocaust of these languages with the tablet of Linear B in his hands."" -- ROSALIND E. KRAUSS"

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Eli Payne Mandel is a poet and psychoanalyst in training. He studied English literature at Yale and Princeton, and has lived most of his life in Brooklyn, New York. His poetry and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in PN Review, New Poetries IX, Raritan, The Harvard Review, Ploughshares Solos, The New Inquiry, and elsewhere. THE GRID is his first book.

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