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An excerpt from A Further Being
"I am only a civil servant from Punim Township, so I hesitate
to introduce what might be mistaken for an exotic element, yet I can
think of no other way to begin: I live under the floorboards in the
house of the archer of death."
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Reviews and Acclaim for A Further Being
Written with a rhythm and soul as challenging and rewarding as any
track Thelonious Monk ever cut, A Further Being weaves a modern
American spirituality that contacts a collective unconscious with a
street-wise sensibility. Kirpal Gordon has a devastatingly accurate
ear for dialogue and an all-encompassing eye for detail that turns these
playful tales toward a shadowed quality at times familiar, meditative,
fantastic, even discomforting. His characters have an almost alien anima
and a curious sensibility; their appeal is ethereal yet concrete. No
writer in America is more mystically alive today.
Cathy Franklin, Creative Communications, Franklin Ink
A Further Being explodes all established canons and definitions
of “text.” It is a hymn, a slangy song to the impulses,
vagaries and fortitude of human beings. Kirpal Gordon deftly pulls us
into the worlds and mythologies his characters inhabit: an unsettling
geography of time, gender, drugs, space. It’s all here, revealed
in the quirky, entertaining atlas that is Gordon’s vision and
gift to us.
Paul Lauter, President, American Studies Association
Kirpal Gordon blends a touch of jazz with his own New York-Texas trajectory
to create a delightfully mixed bag of short fiction in A Further
Being. With rare alchemical skill, he weds allegory to the kind
of mythmaking the ancients knew before Philo of Alexandra twisted it
into theology. Pushed back to its roots, allegory literally becomes
“speaking otherwise” than its surface meaning. That’s
where Gordon takes us, on a loop in which popular culture and religion
join and implode. Myth, as Philo forgot, can be liberating. In the hands
of a skillful maker, it returns a truth truer than observation. I feel
sure Gordon is on the side of the angels, listening to cosmic vibrations.
David Breeden, poet/editor, Context South
Kirpal Gordon writes, speaks, and performs the narratives of A Further
Being in a masterful melange of voices. Invoking and echoing the
traditions of William Burroughs, Peter Matthiessen, Buster Keaton, and
Henry Miller, he moves beyond to land in his own port. From the Koran
to the sewer hole, from parable to hip-hop, from lesbian separatism
to Celtic paganism, there is nothing that escapes his witty, raw, sensual,
and refined story of the continuity of human mystery. He takes the reader
into meditative wonder.
Ann Fitzgerald, critic, Marymount Manhattan College
…chock full of meaning, implication and suggestion, the stories
are also terrifically funny, offering us a radical world where sex and
spirit are not separate.
Marie-Jose Fortis, Collages & Bricolages