Resisting Writings (Smu Studies in Composition and Rhetoric)

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Owens, Derek

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Southern Methodist Univ Pr

<p>A master of disguise tries to seduce the sun... a horticultural club tours a dream garden... a fishwife is serenaded by a severed head ... a lunar king appeals to the people of earth one last time. These are a few of the characters you'll meet in this collection of 37 fabulist tales, each conjured by Derek Owens in response to the surreal art of Caroline Golden. You are formally invited to enter this enchanted everwhen: an eclectic gallery of whimsical souls; a chorus of voices fanciful, dark, and strange.\n"A brilliantly imagined and transportive collection of surreal bedtime stories." -- Kirkus Reviews\n"A feat of fabulous creativity." --The Independent Book Review\n"A physical wonder, gorgeously produced." —Ancillary Review of Books</p>

The Villagers

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Animal Heart Press

Memory’s Wake is a brilliant, haunting masterpiece. Owens uncovers a tale of devastating brutality and intimate struggle with prose so inspired, so precisely, languidly beautiful it leaves you breathless. This story of one mother’s unfathomable hatred and one mother’s transcendent love is more than a personal history. Through revealing his mother’s trials and trauma Owens delivers us into the arms of our best and strangest self. The self capable of more than survival, capable of grace. Not since David Wojnarowicz’s Close to the Knives has an American writer excavated the landscape of familial, spiritual and historical wreckage with such intelligence and honesty. Memory’s Wake is a profound and  deeply moving memoir, apocalyptic in the truest sense of the word. Cara Hoffman (author of So Much Pretty) Derek Owens’ Memory’s Wake is a solitary son’s journey into the forgotten burrows of New York State’s “Burnt Over District.” He uncovers an ancient American Furnace ready still, even in its twilights, to spread the upheavals of trance, hallucination, and the showers of whispers that seem to rain down out of this so often overlooked geography. He lets himself be bitten deeply by the ghost-footed noises he uncovers and the unsheltered wonders of our claimed and unclaimed ancestral broods who ignited the firestorms of prophesies, dooms, raptures, and locks of talking hair spilling their secrets into the beginning of our twenty-first century lives. David Matlin (author of It Might Do Well With Strawberries)

Memory's Wake

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Spuyten Duyvil

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