October 1, 2015
Nature or Nurture
A review of Janette Platana’s “Spontaneous Generation” in A Token of my Affliction (Tightrope Books, 2015) By Derek Newman-Stille Janette Platana’s macabre tale “Spontaneous Generation” uses the movement of maggots across a floor from a dead bird in the chimney to discourse on notions of life and death, family, and ideas of nurture v nature on personal development. Platana questions...