A previously unpublished selection, Joanna Ruocco\'s The Boghole and the Beldame is a pastoral hallucination--more spell than story--that harks back to the waking/walking life of an archetypal dreamer.
Ruocco.
The characters--creatures, figures, names--in The Boghole and the Beldame lean against time, pluck it for quills, wring its veins for blue, and blush black.
Afoot in the muck of language, Ruocco paints a thicket in which every shimmering growth baffles the landscape.
A previously unpublished selection, Joanna Ruocco\'s The Boghole and the Beldame is a pastoral hallucination--more spell than story--that harks back to the waking/walking life of an archetypal dreamer