Poetry. This prose-poem sequence opens with the following sentence: "Scenes left on the cutting room floor flower into their own scenery." Such an auspiciously suggestive start functions as a distillation of the book's prismatic echo chamber, where painterly lyricism and narrative probing converge within each musically astute sentence. This is a symphony of partial happenings, ghostly movements, and investigatory ruminations, a stroll through an exhibit of painting that seem to stare back at the viewer: captivating, gorgeous, and just a little bit scary. Sara Veglahn is the author of several chapbooks, teaches prose workshops and literature seminars in Naropa's Department of Writing and Poetics and is the current Associate Editor of the DENVER QUARTERLY.

Another Random Heart

Literature & Fiction

Veglahn, Sara

Poetry

Letter Machine Editions

Fiction. In THE LADIES, a trio of professional mourners contemplates their fate, while their days are consumed by the various rituals of grief and an intense hunger that never seems to be sated. The chorus-like quality of the narrative offers the haunting element of the mythological, where past and present merge and become nearly indistinguishable. In dream-like, crystalline prose, this novel interrogates the complexity of existence, of mourning, of identity, of origins.

The Ladies

Noemi Press

Obsessed with bodies of water and haunted by a chorus of mysterious ladies, the unnamed protagonist desperately searches for what is real and what is a dream. A deep and vivid exploration of the passageway between life and death, The Mayflies is a lyrical and haunting look at loneliness, isolation, and moving on.Sara Veglahn is the author of two chapbooks, Another Random Heart (2009) and Closed Histories (2008). She holds an MFA from University of Massachusetts–Amherst and a PhD from the University of Denver, and has also taught creative writing at Regis University and Naropa University. She lives in Denver, Colorado.

The Mayflies

United States

Dzanc Books

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