#mark gluth

Haunted by and heartbroken for the ghost of Margaret Kroftis. I've nearly finished this emotionally challenging book, but I suspect it won't be finished with me for some time.

In a sequence of haunted seasons, Tuesday, Hague, and their mother Karen are pained by the aporia of love and death. With powerfully elemental prose, No Other lays bare the mysterious and emotional fate of a small family.

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"In Mark Gluth’s beautiful family gothic No Other, the reader encounters a landscape of mood and mystery, burning with a stripped-down pain. Gluth’s sentences devastate in their raw economy, attempting to penetrate the everyday, tracing abbreviated existences struggling to survive through bare seasons." – Kate Zambreno, author of Green Girl & Heroines

"In clipped, incantatory verse shined from whorls somewhere between Gummo and As I Lay Dying, Mark Gluth's No Other invents new ambient psychological terraforma of rare form, a world by turns humid and eerie, nowhere and now, like a blacklight in a locked room." – Blake Butler, author of 300,000,000

"It's devastating." – William Basinski, composer of The Disintegration Loops

“No Other verges […] into something approximating Wittgenstein: each sentence forms an epigrammatic piece that almost stands on its own, were it not to extend, dodge, and nullify the thought before it […] With No Other, Gluth descends from Cooper to align with a revival of Beckettian repetition studded with artifacts of the recognizable present. Here, like a drone song of terrible yet familiar noises extended beyond what seems comfortable or possible, No Other finds a new aesthetic in the durational disassembly of the natural.” – Rain Taxi Review of Books