The Glimmering Room
By Cynthia Cruz
2012
First Published
4.22
Average Rating
87
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Fierce and fearless, The Glimmering Room beckons readers down into the young speaker's dark underworld, and because we are seduced by Cruz's startling imagery and language rich with "Death's outrageous music," we follow willingly. Peopled with "ambassadors from the Netherworld"—the orphaned and abused, the lost and addicted—Cruz leads us through this "traveling minstrel show / Called girlhood—" which is at once tragic and magical.
Avg Rating
4.22
Number of Ratings
148
5 STARS
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Author
Cynthia Cruz
Author · 9 books
Cynthia Cruz is the author of Ruin (Alice James Books) as well as The Glimmering Room, Wunderkammer and How the End Begins (all from Four Way Books). She is the recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and a Hodder Fellowship. An essayist and art writer, her first collection of essays, Notes Toward a New Language is forthcoming. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and is currently a doctoral student in Germanic Language and Literature.
