A Good copy of a writer's "first published collection."Cover painting by the author is an abstract which has a mask, covered by ferns, set on a column, framed by a mostly gold frame. Wear to cover. No wrinkles to spine. Wear to back cover with faint scratching. Inside front cover is a spot measuring a quarter inch along the side edging which continues until page 29. Part of a label on front flyleaf. Gift inscription in blue ballpoint on title page. Signed by author in black fine felt tip on title page:"For Aunt Janet/Alison Bundy" Instead of a comma between lines, the author has drawn a line. Lost Roads series no. 27. 53 pages. Contents:"the traveller; a windy day; the telling; the nervous person; the day of the pig; a small matter of planning; the baby and the poison beetle; the chair; the inexplicable incident of the crown; love and the metal chest; the man, the storm; zombie fete: an outline; the wheelbarrow story; tree signs; the apostle of love; traci

A Bad Business (Lost Roads, 27)

Literature & Fiction

Bundy, Alison

United States

Lost Roads Publishers

Tale of a Good Cook

Paradigm Press

Fiction. "A truly epigrammatic prose can be difficult to pull off in English. The thirty-one fictions[']...economy is at once playful and finely controlled, reticent and suggestive.... Bundy is at her best tracing the persistence of desire with a mournful wit reminiscent of the best work of Lydia Davis.... The real virtues of DUNCECAP, though, are formal. It reads like the contents of a costume jewelry box—each item oddly wrought in a new way, with a philosophic modesty that's rare in self-conscious 'play'"—Brian Lennon.

DunceCap

Contemporary

Burning Deck

<p>Poetry. Prose. Edited by Alison Bundy, Keith &amp; Rosmarie Waldrop. This anthology celebrates Burning Deck's 40th anniversary. Contributors include the poets Rae Armantrout, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Robert Creeley, Tina Darragh, Michael Davidson, Lisa Jarnot, Mark McMorris, Cole Swensen, Marjorie Welish, prose writers Walter Abish, Paul Auster, John Hawkes, Dallas Wiebe, John Yau and in translation, Xue Di, Friederike Mayrocker, Ernst Jandl, Marcel Cohen, and Emmanuel Hocquard. "In their understated way, the Waldrops...provide a forum for works of unconventional, innovative character"--Joseph Barbato, Publishers Weekly. "...the excellent Burning Deck"--John Ashbery. "For over 30 years, Burning Deck has made available a vast range of experimental and adventurous poetry and prose of unwavering quality, providing a role model for all small presses"--Marc Lowenthal, The Boston Book Review.</p>

One Score More: The Second 20 Years of Burning Deck, 1981-2002

History & Criticism

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