Joanne Kyger

Invisible Idylls Joanne Kyger

BIG BRIDGE PRESS PRESENTS A RARE WHALEN TEXT. FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY JOANNE KYGER: INVISIBLE IDYLLSby the Reverend Philip WhalenSam, Shorty, Peter, Gwendolyn, May Margaret and Chandler. They all live exquisitely sturdy and grandiosely intelligent lives. Sam, Shorty and Peter have terminally minimal money between them and reside within the vast holdings of The Laetitia Norton Feinschreiber Memorial Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, with its memorial museum and library, stables, squash courts, swimming pools, sculpture studio, and the music library housing the Ernestine Pratkredl Feinschreiber Memorial Baroque Organ which overlooks the lotus pond with its expensive imported ducks from Kashmir. Still, its inhabitants have barely enough money to take a bus downtown