2014年03月25日 And Your Bird Can Sing: Fictions Like the magician in one of his stories, Robert Miltner makes things appear and disappear, amusing and unsettling us at once. These are provocative narratives of working people with all the punch of wit and all the lyricisim of poetry, plus you get to figure out how the titles (all Beatles songs) fit these stories that mostly happen as quick as a sneeze. If you’re looking for plot twists and engaging ambiguity, here they are. If you’re looking for open endings, characters you may live next door to, or may have had a drink with, or an affair with, or may have heard tell of (a lickerish Johnny Appleseed shows up early, John F. Kennedy later), here they are. If you’re looking for poignant and wry situations cast as sudden fictions and prose poems, you’ll want to read And Your Bird Can Sing.
—Richard Hague, author of Learning How: Stories, Yarns, and Tales
