{"id":3870,"date":"2015-11-11T06:38:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T13:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i81.a52.mywebsitetransfer.com\/?p=3870"},"modified":"2017-08-08T03:49:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T10:49:28","slug":"her-37th-year-an-index-by-suzanne-scanlon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/?p=3870","title":{"rendered":"Her 37th Year, An Index by Suzanne Scanlon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2484\" src=\"https:\/\/dactylreview.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/scanloncover.png?w=102\" alt=\"ScanlonCover\" width=\"159\" height=\"233\" \/>The abecedarium has a long literary history, and some of its best-known examples, such as Ambrose Bierce\u2019s <em>Devil\u2019s Dictionary<\/em> or Gustave Flaubert\u2019s <em>Le Dictionnaire des id\u00e9es re\u00e7ues<\/em>, play with the form\u2019s implied authority for purposes of satire. Recently Matt Bell\u2019s <em>Cataclysm Baby <\/em>used the template to convey hellish fragments of an environmental dystopia. Suzanne Scanlon, author of <em>Promising Young Women<\/em> (2012), turns to a woman\u2019s experience in contemporary America and offers a probing and artful inventory in <em>Her 37th Year, An Index<\/em> (Noemi Press, 161 pages). <a href=\"http:\/\/dactylreview.com\/2015\/11\/11\/her-37th-year-an-index-by-suzanne-scanlon\/\">Continue reading<\/a> \u2192<\/p>\n<p class='fb-like'><iframe src='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/?p=3870&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=260&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' allowTransparency='true' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:260px; height:26px'><\/iframe><\/p><fb:share-button href=\"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/?p=3870\" type=\"box_count\"><\/fb:share-button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The abecedarium has a long literary history, and some of its best-known examples, such as Ambrose Bierce\u2019s Devil\u2019s Dictionary or Gustave Flaubert\u2019s Le Dictionnaire des id\u00e9es re\u00e7ues, play with the form\u2019s implied authority for purposes of satire. Recently Matt Bell\u2019s Cataclysm Baby used the template to convey hellish fragments of an environmental dystopia. 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