MODERN LOVE

MODERN LOVEFiction. Ugly Duckling Presse and Primary Information, 2017. Paperback, 224 pages. 7. 1875"x4. 75"x0. 2" From the press: Constance DeJong's long neglected, late 1970s novel, Modern Love, is one thing made up of many: It's science fiction. It's a detective story. It is a historical episode in the time of the Armada and the dislocation of Sephardic Jews from Spain to an eventual location in New Yorks lower east side. It is a first person narrators

"The /spontaneous productions of the earth get rarer

and collected to create new reading scenarios

and detritus

Jenny Marion & Otto Sylvan Krantz

and that which is wholly beyond categorization

black holes

Moving through the shifting surfaces of inarticulable loss

Hovering diffusely across taut lines

In this way

Like a funny

costume and kimono designer during a turbulent time in avant-garde Japanese art and cinema

and correspondence