SPRAWL

By Danielle Dutton Description Reviews When Danielle Dutton’s SPRAWL first broke upon the world in 2010, critics likened it to collage, a poetics of the suburbs, a literal unpacking of et cetera. This updated edition, with a new afterword by Renee Gladman, reopens the space of SPRAWL’s “fierce, careful composition”—as Bookforum wrote—“which changes the ordinary into the wonderful and odd.” SPRAWL is the suburban homemaker’s response to “Howl” and should be read by all, especially those living blindly, waiting for The American Dream to pop up.Cody Lee, New Pages Danielle Dutton’s unnamed narrator stalks through yards, streets, and her own house with such sharp perception that everything she encounters—cake trays, the doorbell’s ring, a dead body—becomes an object in her vast and impeccable still-life. Dutton’s sentences are as taut and controlled as her narrator’s mind, and a hint at what compels both ("I locate my body by grounding it against the bodies of others") betrays a