Level End
A video game walkthrough written as a sequence of lyric essays. The reader is treated as a player, guided through boss battles that turn out to be uncannily familiar.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Form | Lyric essay |
| Author | Brian Oliu |
| Published | 2012 |
| Extent | 32 pages |
| Status | out of print |
What the book does
A walkthrough is second person, imperative and obsessively procedural. Level End keeps that machinery and swaps out what is being described, so a book about loss never once announces itself as one. It is a frequent example in discussions of the lyric essay and of the second person.
In Level End, Brian Oliu treats you as a player rather than a reader.
Where this book lives now
Origami Zoo Press closed in 2015 and this edition is out of print. Much of the catalogue moved to Bull City Press. We are an independent archive of the address, not the publisher, and we do not sell this book. To read it, look for the Bull City Press catalogue or a library copy.
More on the form this book belongs to: what a chapbook is. Back to the shelf.