Fiction. COLOR PLATES is a museum of stories, curated by a sort-of Mary Cassatt. Four rooms of Mary's museum are open to the public, and they are named Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Mary Cassatt. COLOR PLATES contains sixty-three little stories—plates—spun from real paintings by these painters. The stories range from sweet to weird, from melancholy to funny. This isn't just a short story collection, and it isn't a novel, but something else entirely. The plates each stand alone, offering startling visions and situations. Yet at the same time, COLOR PLATES offers the depth of a novel, with recurring characters, themes, and motifs. The museum says: My name is Mary and Mary is my museum. Paintings are brushstroke upon brushstroke. With a pencil I lift each brushstroke and make lines. Line upon line, story upon story, the small fictions in COLOR PLATES will engage you, delight you, and challenge you to consider the intersections between art and time.

Color Plates

Literature & Fiction

Golaski, Adam

Literary

Rose Metal Press

Worse Than Myself

Light crept across the snow in the backyard and the snow became blindingly bright--it seemed more than white, seemed more like empty space, like a crisp sheet of paper just fed through the roller of a typewriter.  Adam Golaski spins dark, weird tales in the original sense of the word: uncanny, unearthly, sometimes fantastic and always slightly off-center. These are stories to be savored late at night in bed, read by the light of a single lamp in an empty, dark house.

Raw Dog Screaming Pr

United States

Raw Dog Screaming Press

These Voice Notes live in the everyday—drugstore receipts, snickers bars, batteries, ginger ale—but they detail, in their uniquely jotted, truncated language, what it is to be alive, what it is to bear witness to the world: sometimes alone, sometimes with loved others, on a planet that “may snuff us out but... will remain.” These poems carry the spirit of song, and feel as ancient as they do avant-garde. Part Niedecker, part Olson and O’Hara, Voice Notes is a spare yet abundant delight. 
—Laura Sims, author of Looker\nThe notion of the notational—We find ourselves asking, what exactly is a note? As these voice notes suggest, it’s a beginning—and here, an endless series of endless beginnings that we can almost hear singing. These notes record whatever ‘leaps to mind,’ with the leap foregrounded, even choreographed in after-thought, graphically scored across the page. And yet the voice remains, almost but not quite captured; its transcription, while vivid, also records all that we miss when a voice gets arrested by writing. It all amounts to a marvelous contemplation of presence and absence and the crucial role of the voice in both. 
—Cole Swensen, author of Art In Time and On Walking On\nAdam Golaski’s Voice Notes closes the gaps between voice, speech, writing, and improvisation, and then expands those very gaps with a singular music that pulses and pops, often with lovely, tender-stepping syllables: “love you like light/closed eyes coruscate/light th’view b’hind y’r’i’yelids.” Poems arrive via the backs of receipts (for Osco Drug, the Ritz Carlton, Grolier Poetry Book Shop), or as transcriptions of language spoken into the “voice notes” app. They invoke a sense of “elizabethan” riffing, and ask the “cyptocrystalline question,” all while tracing and tracking a sensual, moving trajectory: “The tongue/pushes us past the world/as words land.” 
—Sawako Nakayasu, author of Pink Waves

Voice Notes

Spuyten Duyvil Publishing

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