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Fairleigh Dickinson University

Semiotext

A Review of The Sad Passions by Veronica Gonzales Peña

March 6, 2014

Gloria Beth Amodeo

(Los Angeles, CA: Semiotext(e), 2013) What are The Sad Passions? Something about the cover struck me as kindred at first sight. A Francesca Woodman photograph of a woman hanging by her fingers in a doorway, face covered in hair. The scene is incipient, set … Continued

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