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Joe Ashby Porter. Touch Wood.(Book Review)
Turtle Point, 2002. 192 pages. Paper: $15.95.
The ten stories in Joe Ashby Porter's fifth volume of fiction, Touch Wood, read like storybook fables, Gothic fantasy, eighteenth-century travel-journals, picaresque tales of disguise, and equatorial magical realism, with a contemporary American inflection. The collection is a curio box of fictions, opening with "A Man Wanted to Buy a Cat," which with its shopkeeper characters and snowy village setting has an air of a Hans Christian Andersen tale, and closing with the titular story, in which story folds in upon story like a Mobius strip. Porter's prose has a charmed quality, comprised as it is of subtle syncopation, incantatory syntax, and bracing diction, which even in the simplest descriptive passages can transport: "Nothing much here ...
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...Thi et al, Sls Pr. $80,000, L5 B1 Lake West addn, OKC. Retn 8305 NW 10th St. Terrace, OKC 73127. B 6639 P 2111 _ Joe $. Ashby et ux to Janet E. Shinee, Sls Pr. $76,000, L22 B2 Robert's Lakeview addn, OK. Retn 3228 NW 61st Place, OKC 73112...
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