Newer Testaments

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Pub Date Nov 15 2020 | Archive Date Jul 05 2021

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Description

Ever get the feeling that your life is caught up in some kaleidoscopic Jungian dream and that you weren't exactly dying but still everything you'd ever been is flashing before your eyes—and then when you wake from this dissolutive dream, your reality remains altered and time has become concurrent and characters from thirty-plus years ago walk into your life again, if ambiguously, and press you on matters of a sacred-profane written text that you never completed?


Heretical and outrageous, ironic and absurd, Newer Testaments scores a hit in the heart of where the existential meets the fated, and the writer's task becomes both revelatory and abject. Into this formidable personal struggle a cast of untoward and/or diaphanous characters rotate including: The Jesus Girl, John Baptist, Macbeth, King Kisko, The Tree Girl, Nurse Mother, a glass satyr, and a French New Wave Mother. Has the nameless narrator lost his mercurial mind, or is this a subconscious-shadow-world sojourn he's been practicing for all his life?—the keys to the kingdom of being.

Ever get the feeling that your life is caught up in some kaleidoscopic Jungian dream and that you weren't exactly dying but still everything you'd ever been is flashing before your eyes—and then when...


A Note From the Publisher

Fiction writer*, poet, antipoet, gentle quasi-misanthrope, librarian, Philip Brunetti has been writing fiction and poetry since his early 20s. His innovative work has been published in various literary journals including: Cobalt, The Boiler, and Identity Theory. (*Brunetti purports to write a kind of ‘off-kilter dream realism’ and asks that you forgive him.) Newer Testaments is his first published novel.

Fiction writer*, poet, antipoet, gentle quasi-misanthrope, librarian, Philip Brunetti has been writing fiction and poetry since his early 20s. His innovative work has been published in various...


Advance Praise

"An innovative existential novel told through hallucinatory poetics." (Independent Book Review)


“Beautiful, haunting, and decidedly subversive, Newer Testaments invites us to explore the metaphysical, the hypothetical, and the hallucinatory.” (Nora E. Webb, Heavy Feather Review)

"An innovative existential novel told through hallucinatory poetics." (Independent Book Review)


“Beautiful, haunting, and decidedly subversive, Newer Testaments invites us to explore the metaphysical...


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Available Editions

EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9781649219022
PRICE $17.99 (USD)