Like Aubrey's Brief Lives set down by Gertrude Stein, these legends of Maya Deren, Joseph Cornell and Charles Olson have the vivid force of anecdote, occupying the space beyween what is remembered and what actually happened.

From the Book of Legends

Wodening, Jane

Small Press Distribution

Brakhage's Childhood recounts the story of visionary American filmmaker Stan Brakhage's (1933-2003) life up to age 12. In 1983 Stan and Jane Brakhage began a series of interviews wherein Stan described his life and Jane took notes. Each session yielded a chapter and each chapter usually a place. After each interview Jane organized, wrote and edited the stories. After two years they had 23 chapters in 100,000 words. "He had the most amazing memory I had ever encountered," says Jane, who writes: "This is a biography of a child, taken from the memory of that child grown up. I can only assume that we stopped the interviews, stopped the book, stopped the marriage, at exactly the right moment. Stan and I worked together a lot in his medium; this time, we worked together in my medium." "In the end," writes Tony Pipolo in the afterword, "[Jane] created a masterly fiction about a fiction that reveals undeniable truths, assuming an autobiographical posture at once commanding and equivocal, a chronicle of semi-Dickensian misery offset by plainspoken observations about an American childhood bearing the mark of its author's writing style, demonstrated in books written during and after her life with Stan Brakhage." Brakhage's Childhood is a remarkable achievement conceptually, intellectually and aesthetically, and provides crucial insight into the early life of one of America's most inspired and complex experimental filmmakers.

Brakhage's Childhood

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Granary Books

The Inside Story

Literature & Fiction

Rodent Press

Fiction. Jane Wodening refers to these stories as having been 'too sad, too ugly, or too grotesque' to include in other collections. Gargoyles ... Each story attests to the absolute clarity and patience of her observation, whether it is of a mother of an accused murderer, the flush on that boy's cheeks, or the devestating dilemma of a writer who has felt the most passionate of kisses and cannot describe it. Because of their clarity, these stories seem etched in stone. We are shown the ugly, but it is depicted with beauty -- Lucia Berlin.

Book of Gargoyles

Baksun Books

<p>Blending memoir and nature writing, Jane Wodening is best loved for her animal stories, and for her ability to re-tell folk tales from denizens of the Rocky Mountains. Both of these are in Animals I Have Neglected to Mention. From Wagsy, a neglected dog whom only Jane could befriend, to Rosco, the highly intelligent donkey, to a runty rooster named Mighty Mouse, Jane reveals her world, full of charm, heartache and joy. You'll be glad Jane remembered this batch of animal friends.<br></p>

Animals I've Neglected to Mention

Genre Fiction

Sockwood Press

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