At the Damascus Gate: Short Hallucinations

Elana Greenfield. Green Integer, $10.95 (116pp) ISBN 978-1-931243-49-0

""Lynol lay unconscious on the floor of the helicopter. His heart had died and been reborn a parachute."" So begins ""The Soldier's Dream,"" one of 13 Robert Coover-like prose dramas in At the Damascus Gate: Short Hallucinations, the first book compiled by Elana Greenfield, acting director of New School University's Arts in Context Program and incarnator of many voices: ""I am the psychopathic blond vixen on the soaps,/ says my heart/ And you can't turn me off.""

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