The Danish Notebook
by Michael Palmer

The metaphor of a child's connecting-the-dots puzzle informs this interesting journal-notebook by one of our leading experimental writers. Michael Palmer traces his own ruminations, drawing lines between points mapped by travel (from San Francisco to Paris, for instance) and among the mind's more complex movements, teasing out the pattern or lack of pattern with which it remembers and reconstructs the self, personal encounters, and reading. The figures that appear as the dots become connected, are sometimes simple, sometimes abstract, but also symbolically rich, like the sun, which is also the title of a previous Palmer book that figures in the journal...His Danish Notebook is absorbing, fascinating in detail and more cunningly constructed than its casual from suggests..."

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