Description

In an age of conspicuous and blinding affluence, an important depiction of a member of the purported invisible class. "Dark. with clipped sentences and pungent passages, Waste] concerns a janitor whose use of office workers' waste and personal objects is queasy. a look at humanity from the slick insides of a wastebasket." -Angle: a Journal of Arts + Culture "Only Eugene Marten can keep a reader enthralled with the minutiae of a janitorial existence. From the most unlikely of subjects Marten constructs, with great care and taking joy in every sentence, a spellbinding work. Precisely and exquisitely detailed, Waste is a stark little masterpiece." -Brian Evenson "When a poet pal had put a copy of Waste into my hands, I right away went nuts until I had gotten myself in touch with its author for to add to my household a supply of enough copies to scare all my writer friends with. Here, said I, in wild proclamation, is one for history and a half." -Gordon Lish "This is surely one of the darkest and most jarring books I've read. It is also pitch-perfect. Waste wastes nothing-not a syllable, a beat, a ragged breath." -Dawn Raffel Eugene Marten's novel In the Blind was published by Turtle Point Press in 2003.