It’s wonderful to read these books in sequence - and, in the spirit (badum-tsh!) of the series title, exciting to place them in conversation with each other to see where they intersect and overlap. These books, in addition to being the most current Conversation Pieces, make a superb triple bill: here are poems and stories concerned with (among others) ways of being dead, ways of being alive, encounters with ghosts both literal and metaphorical, memories, echoes, speech and silence, freedom and constraint. Bradley, Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett, and Ghost Signs by Sonya Taaffe - I find I want not only to engage but to actively celebrate these powerful, versatile, mesmerizing voices and the people who enabled me to hear them.
Having now read its three most recent publications - The Haunted Girl by Lisa M. Timmel Duchamp offers a quote from Jonathan Goldberg to articulate its core purpose: “To look forward to the history that will be, one must look at and retell the history that has been told.” Numbering forty-three titles thus far - including collections of poetry, essays, short fiction, and more - the series is a fascinating endeavour, and one which I was keen to engage for this column. In her introduction to Aqueduct Press’ Conversation Pieces series, L. Series: The Tales of Gorlen Vizenfirthe.Series: From the Lost Travelers’ Tour Guide.People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!.
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