“Marilyn Krysl is one of our most gifted, quirky, and delightful storytellers―unpredictable, funny, and wildly inventive in wondrous ways. Her new collection shows her at the top of her form as she details the ordinary, the absurd, and the apocalyptic in outrageous and deeply affecting ways.” ―Jay Neugeboren, author of 1940 and News from the New American Diaspora “Marilyn Krysl’s astonishing Dinner with Osama somehow finds the intersection between deep anguish at the state of the world and brilliant, caustic, and hilarious sociopolitical satire of America post-9/11. Its effrontery is peculiarly female, its fierce intelligence that of a mother―or even (‘Are We Dwelling Deep Yet?’) a Great Mother―who needs to save and feed the world however she can. Its north and south must be ‘Mitosis,’ Krysl’s heartbreaking life history of a young Dinka woman whose way of life, and source of food, have been destroyed by civil war in Sudan; its east and west is surely the title story, in the voice of a politically irreproachable matriarch of Boulder, Colorado, who does her part by extending a dinner invitation to Osama―yes, that Osama―through her ‘pal’ Abdullah at the local gyros stand; and Osama not only receives it, he accepts. Israelis and Palestinians, ‘conflict’-addicted cliché-mongers of the creative writing workshop, violent extremists of every stripe, and above all the wealthy consumerist left are all skewered in this miraculous collection.” ―Jaimy Gordon, author of Bogeywoman and She Drove Without Stopping “We may have to invent a new term––‘the political lyric,’ perhaps––to describe the ‘airy speech and inspired story’ in Marilyn Krysl’s brilliant new collection of short fiction, Dinner with Osama. What holds all the fiction together, as much as the impassioned political and cultural concerns that inform them, is the writing, which is lyrical in the best sense, lyrical as in musical, expressive, and vivid.” ―Ed Falco, author of Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha: New and Selected Stories

Dinner With Osama

Literature & Fiction

KRYSL, Marilyn

Literary

University of Notre Dame Press

Yes, There Will Be Singing brings together Marilyn Krysl’s essays on the origins of language and poetry, poetic form, the poetry of witness, and poetry’s collaboration with the healing arts. Beginning with pieces on her own origins as a poet, she branches into poetry’s profound spiritual and political possibilities, drawing on rich examples from poets such as Anna Akhmatova, W.S. Merwin, and Vénus Khoury-Ghata. Krysl concludes with a selection of stories of her nursing and humanitarian work, powerfully connecting poetic expression with a generous and compassionate worldview.

Yes, There Will Be Singing (Poets On Poetry)

History & Criticism

University of Michigan Press

Midwife and Other Poems on Caring

Poetry

Natl League for Nursing Pr

Begins a series that will sample the whole range of feminist issues, biographies, activities, organizations and theories in the US. The first offering explores the highly supportive role of nursing associations in the suffrage movement from the opening of the first Nightingale-influenced nursing sc

Soulskin (NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR NURSING SERIES (ALL NLN TITLES))

More Palomino, Please, More Fuchsia

Cleveland State Univ Poetry Center

Mozart, Westmoreland, and Me

United States

Thunder's Mouth Pr

Mozart, Westmoreland, and me: Stories

Thunders Mouth

Marilyn Krysl's poetry is funny, funky, tragic, brave, lyrical, humane, political, and full of surprises. And she is still writing the liveliest sestinas in America. -Alicia Ostriker, author of No Heaven

Swear the Burning Vow

Ghost Road Pr

<p>From Denver to Sri Lanka, Eden to the 21st century, Krysl's stories explore female experience and imagination.</p>

How to Accommodate Men

Coffee House Press

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