The Dread Road

The last work published in the author’s lifetime, this multi-voiced account of a bus trip from Albuquerque to Denver passing the site of the Ludlow Massacre is also a journey through the purgatory of American consciousness. This novella, rich in allusions to writers including Whitman, Poe, and Lawrence, has also influenced a number of contemporary authors, especially women of color.

Particularly noticeable is the triple arrangement of texts on a page, with quotations from Edgar Allen Poe on the left, the core text in the center, and lyrical outcries suggesting the narrator’s memory on the right. The work is being hailed by recent critics as a major postmodernist breakthrough.

11 x 8½ inches • 65 pages • ISBN 0-931122-63-5