A Conjoined Book

<div>Karla Kelsey's A Conjoined Book hinges together two texts-Aftermath and Become Tree Become Bird-to create a meditation on the nature of aboutness. Aftermath unfolds after an unnamed ecological/emotional fracture creating a landscape of rift where the I imagines herself as she and perceptions weave into memory and fiction. Become Tree Become Bird grafts the Brothers Grimm's The Juniper Tree to the body of Aftermath reworking what has splintered into a variation of fairy tale. Throughout A Conjoined Book Kelsey's condensed imagery shifting viewpoints and interwoven formal structures set lyric and narrative a-shimmer. Blending experiment and tradition this book will appeal to a wide audience interested in seeing how fairy tale philosophy ecology narratology history. As Julie Carr writes: horror elegy mystery fairy tale lyric treatise fragment meet one another with all their intensities of emotion and intellect.</div>