“I dream of severing all ties,” Sonja warns in this plump book. And, indeed, in this distinct collection of collages, text fragments, poems, stories and drawings she seems to have succeeded. Work this haunting is done in that solitary place where nobody speaks, nobody listens and nothing is known. Sonja evokes pills, escape, and an incredible unease with the logic of the physical world. Turn a page. There’s a little mirror that just catches the bulge of your chin. Beside it, a naked doll. Above it, the line: “sometimes you worry about me.” And then her own sardonic answer as you ponder the perplexities of your complexion: “Yah, right.”
chapbook main creator: Sonja Ahlers $3 Box 8192, Victoria, BC, V8 W 3R8