The Blue Suitcase #1
Joseph Carlough
half letter / 24 pages / $3
available from microcosm publishing
If I were writing this review in a bygone era, I might open
with a line similar to this: “the young Mr. Carlough has triumphed again upon
the printed page, sharing a gripping tale of a forgotten man’s curious ephemera.”
In a bygone era, there was no Facebook, no Google, no
internet search engines. People’s lives were chronicled in vanishing footsteps
and private moments – scrawls left on scraps of paper, battered notebooks,
postcards, notations penciled in the margins of books. The life and thoughts of
Antonio San Martino Carbayo are a mystery with only a few dusty fragments to
sift through for clues. Mr. Carlough has preserved these fragments gleaned from
the deceased Mr. Carbayo’s apartment within a blue suitcase which has sat like
a beckoning, deranged intruder in his apartment for several years. The Blue Suitcase is a title worthy of
an Edward Gorey anomaly, and indeed there are dark meanderings of the mind
contained within.
I won’t give up the circumstances surrounding – or contents
within - the blue suitcase. For those details, please read this fascinating
zine / chapbook. Mr. Carlough promises three more volumes as he delves
methodically into Mr. Carbayo’s notes, writings, and bizarre preoccupations
(hypnotizing women for sex is just one of them!). I’m looking forward to
reading his insights.
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