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ALLBOOKS REVIEW of DOWN TO A SUNLESS SEA
Shirley Roe, Allbooks Review Editor, just emailed me the first review of Down to a Sunless Sea. It is proof that the writer is often the last to know his worth as an artist. How do you follow a book such as The i Tetralogy? I moved from the Holocaust, to the holocausts within our lives as individuals, I imagine. I am very elated, and tearful, for at 67 a lifetime’s angst and agony is being rewarded not by filthy lucre but by the affirmation of others who I touch, in some fashion, as a writer. Here is the review…
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Juan Person’s Hands, from Down to a Sunless Sea, Winter 2008
The New York Times reported that the hands of Juan Peron had been removed from his body. A minister was quoted as calling the act “savage.” Seagulls. Are there seagulls in Argentina? Do they soar, catching the spiraling updrafts off the coast of the Argentine? And are there dwarfs, scurrying hither and thither, thumping creatures with squat wooden stools in their fat and pouty little hands? I wanted his head — only a thought. A head is too much to fathom. His hands, the huge ones that toyed with us in the grand plazas as he and the blonde one…
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Welcome! I’m Mathias B. Freese (“Matt”). I’ve created this respite as a writer’s oasis. Tarry a while, for it is here that I share and express who I am. It is all about me, although I may be of no particular interest to you. And that may very well be the point. I persevere as a writer, for an artist is never poor (Dinesen). So I am here to give who I am (the writer’s task). I am mere mortal disturbance on surface earth, a human pinprick, and all herein is an introduction to my inner-directed life. Pass on by…