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Prism and Graded MonotonyPrism and Graded Monotony is the earlier of Dominic Ward's two JEF novels, and the more associative. The publisher's own description calls it a plurality of threads in which death and survival are the sum and myriad weird parts comprise it. The pacing reads more like a prose poem than like a plot: associative, fragmentary, shaped by recurrence rather than arc. Its logic is the logic of a dream rather than a plot. Recurring images shift register

A father searches for a Bible and eats toothpaste in anticipation of his daughter's drowning at a seaside resort called Penal Port

narrated by Jeremiah D

It won the 2016 Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel

This is the book that carries her own voice rather than her editorial hand

and lyric memoir built around love

A general number in the press's print annual

The form was his own: compressed prose that reaches the scale of a novel through what he called "negative text

the entire novel taking place inside an internal monologue that keeps revising what it just said

inner speech

supplies the introduction

among others

and the question Ward holds open is which of the two worlds will finally give him the meaning he is looking for