Dirtmouth - Reviews

"Like William Goyen's The House of Breath or Beckett's Play, Singer's Dirtmouth's voices flutter purgatorially somewhere between life and death. But while Goyen offers the ghostly and weightless consolation of both memory and air, Singer's voices here are weighty as earth and as the crimes they have committed, the sentences as substantial and as carefully articulated as preserved bodies. Dirtmouth is a compelling and perfectly rendered meditation on the dark struggle between memory and forgetting."

—Brian Evenson

"Here is an archaeology of the dismembered and reawakened body, a tale, a tongue, that unearths love and thought and makes you breathe mortality itself."

—Joseph McElroy