The Point Alma Venus Manuscripts: Preliminary Versions of The Women at Point Sur

Kafka and Hunt pieced together the fragments of the discarded Point Alma Venus versions from not only old typescripts but such ephemera as the backs of bank statements and advertising fliers. The decades they devoted to locating, deciphering, and organizing this scattered and at first unknown or discarded poetry resulted in a stunning work of scholarship. [...]as the resultant The Women at Point Sur shows, rather than trying to solve puzzles which he himself has defined and constructed, he needs to examine his own life. The light at the top of the structure promises safety, the certainty of stable human life.