Review: DICTEE: BELLS FALL A PEAL TO SKY by Loren Noveck
Richly allusive and teasingly elusive; calling on myths and snippets of history from ancient Greece, medieval France, and modern Korea; circling around and darting at thematic clusters of motherhood and womanhood, inheritance and language, oppression and resistance: Dictee evades simple description, resists being written about in a straightforwardly narrative way--resists, too, any kind of straightforward narrative. …