Note: Poem is moved to the bottom. It contains my thoughts on suicide which might not be the most pleasant thing to read straight up. I advise you to skip unless you are also a pessimist. Story: Annie Proulx - NegativesContent warning: sexual assault I finally finished Proulx's collection Heart Songs, and enjoyed it a lot. Her stories are always rich with strange characters and descriptions of things you have never bothered to examine. The plots can be quite slippery - often I feel I have missed something, and quite a few stories I had to read twice. Fortunately, another blogger SlapHappyLarry has written incredibly detailed sparknotes for each, all for free on his blog. He mentions Proulx's use of microscopic details that become vital to the plot, and explains many literary techniques I didn't know about. Thanks Larry! I think this is the third or fourth story in the collection where a man does something terrible to a woman. Sex in Proulx's stories usually happens suddenly and…
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