Publisher's Synopsis
Gathered together here are the Draft Fragments, Draft Novels, and Draft Notes originally published in three volumes. Ambitus Volume Works Collected stands as a compendium of the author's early but unfinished writings, ranging across experimental forms and strict story-telling forays. However unfinished these writings remain they are never simply abandoned or discarded. Even the briefest fragment and the sketchiest note articulate an act of writing that is utterly complete, fully contained, critically indivisible and each sustains its place within a visionary fracture that extends the length of discourse. Coherent, or unconnected, dissonant or tonally pure, narrative or abruptly imagistic the full pressures of both argument and persuasion exert their force and feeling.
Fragments begins with water and ends with flowers. Novels begins with a female figure, part muse and part memory who surfaces repeatedly among the texts, unraveling identity into its constituent images, descriptions and metaphors, until the gesture each draft novel represents is in turn a representation. Notes begins with the title for an imaginary act of theater and ends in a kind of soliloquy.
Inadvertently composed over the course of forty-years Ambitus Volume Works testifies to desire and its resistances, time and it's extensions, the permutations of language entangled by myth, poetry and art, their hybrid forms and mutant energies so that what it means to be 'unfinished' can at last be put to rest.
