The Michigan Daily Rude aw This music-filled se Living Dead' is rel bought the rights t der' scriptwriter D the soon-to-be-rele original 'Living De features the death and SSQ among oth quel to 'Night of the Living Dead' called 'Return of the lated to the original only because producer Tom Fox o the script. The film, which is directed by 'Blue Thun- an O'Bannon, is also unrelated to 'Day of the Dead,' ased effort by George Romero, the director of the: ead' movie. 'Return' which opens soon in Ann Arbor,; rock sounds of The Cramps, The Damned, 45 Grave,; ers. ARTS Thursday, August 8, 1985 Page 6 Noveldepicts lost love details of his brief relationship with or to Mary's overwhelming piano ex- Kentucky Love Mary borders on obsession. She was positions are described with imagery By Joe Coomer the waitress at the Pancake & Egg, of Hart's drowning. St. Martin's/Marek, "a talented piano student, and Hart's first love." The loss of Mary coupled But, as Hart points out, one has to 185 pages, $12.95 with the death of his grandmother sink to appreciate the necessity of JOE COOMER received the Texas created such searing pain that five swimming. In the present Hart feels Institute of Letters Award for best years later Hart is still coming to that he is no longer drowning, but is fiction of 1983 with his debut novel The trms with it. As a healing exercise he rather a piece. of flotsam. Hart records it all, and Kentucky Love is believes that someday he will swim the memoir. again. Although Coomer stretches the The chapters alternate erratically water metaphors a bit thin in parts, between Hart's freshman year and the overall effect of this focal image his reclusive present on his gran- is both stirring and appropriate. By Jacqueline Raznik dfather's farm. Although Hart is As Hart sifts through the ashes of suspended somewhere between past ents imprinted upon mmrh and present, the vague time referen- eventsipitduo memory, he tries to retrieve his shattered faith in Decatur Road. Coomer's latest novel ces of certain paragraphs may con- man. What exalts man above the rest Kentucky Love will heighten this sur- fuse the reader who does not take of the animal kingdom? Is it simply facing writer's acclaim as a poignant careful note of the abrupt changes in vanity? When his grandfather's old and evocative storyteller.In Ken- tense. Overall, however, the format mutt Zeke pursues a fleeing rabbit tucky Love Coomer creates a sen- works well and enhances the depic- Hart chases after the dog and won- sitive protagonist, Hart Crane, whose tion of Hart's embroiled mental state. dra what would happen if the recollections of his freshman year at Hart devours the words of his nam- suddenly flip the University of Kentucky embrace esake, Hart Crane, his grandfather's magneticelds wold suddenlyeflip universal hearttruth of love and loss. favorite poet, finding the vivid sea North would become South. Would Present and past are intertwined as imagery and the theme of drowning rabbit be chasing dog chasing man? Hart, now age 23, attends to the mun- an ideal illustration for his own Hart is plagued by such challenges to dane but therapeutic responsibilities maelstrom of emotion and thought. man's significance. dictated by his grandfather's rolling Kentucky Love is replete with the Kentucky farm. But vivid memories theme of swimming vs. drowning: For brief moments Hart can forget of freshman year dominate his rationality vs. emotion. Memories of the feeling of powerlessness that thoughts. He thinks of the fraternity learning to swim with his grandfather death and heartbreak force him to antics with buddies Moto and Ford, are Hart's most cherished. He reflects face: He climbs a tree, reaching his the summer at his grandfather's on freshman year. Every reference to hand to the blue and almost touches farm, but his remembrance of the his physical relationship with Mary, omniscience, omnipotence. But then a bird descends, reminding Hart of his human restrictions. He is simply treed. Hart concludes that even if existence has no meaning it doesn't mean that existence itself is unworthy. Unfortunately, Coomer does not clearly develop how Hart reaches this existential conclusion. 1. Nevertheless, his illustration of Hart's quandry flaunts his imagination and penetrating writing ' style. Each of Coomer's characters vivifies Hart's emotional duress by A TSproviding a contrast or semblance to Hart's own outlook. Images of Professor Ashpal who arrives in class only to inform his students that sometimes letting go is the only true demonstration of love, Rank, whose faith in God and the good would never shatter, and Grandpa, who never ral Campus Central Campus enobled himself, shooting over the Hall (Continued) enemies' heads in the war, are just a Hall few that affect Hart as he tries to wl Michigan Union resolve his emotional turmoil. 1 Science Buidling Michigan League Buiding Student Activities Building True, the lengthy description of stry Building Hart's sexual encounter with Mary ittle Law School grows a bit tiresome, and excessive on Building School of Education references to local products, dated n Language Building School of Business Administration Tv shows, and music stars may Builing choo ofalienate certain readers. It is also Building School of Dentistry true that in the conclusion Hart spen- Building School of Natural Resources ds much time in redundancy as he ngineering Medical Campus tries to justify an already telling ac- count of his 19th year. Nevertheless, ngineering Taubman Library Joe Coomer is a poignant master of graduate Library Medical Science wit and the metaphor, enabling Ken- ate Library Furstenberg Lounge . tucky Love to soar beyond its oc- casional areas of ambiguity to move all who have ever loved and lost. lir- Dormitories Dormitories Cent Mary Markley Couzens Alice Lloyd Mosher-Jordan Stockwell- South Quad East Quad West Quad Fletcher Hall Helen Newberry Betsy Barbour Martha Cook Law Club . (Continued) Bursley Baits I Baits II Oxford Housing North Campus School of Music Art & Architecture Bldg. North Campus Commons G. G. Brown Dow Building Engineering 1-A Angell Mason Fishbo Natura Chemi C. C. L Dennis Moder Frieze LS & A East E West E Underc Graduc cif