Fiction. K. L. Cook's award-winning LOVE SONGS FOR THE QUARANTINED illuminates the unexpected, the unforeseen—the moments when, without warning, everything changes. A surprise visit from the infamous Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow disturbs a thirteen-year boy's routine—and future. A fortune teller's ominous predictions unsettle two brothers during their first visit to the Cotton Bowl. Whooping cough quarantines a family and reminds them of their precarious history. A miniscule filament of hot steel lodges in a man's eye and irrevocably alters the course of his marriage. Sixteen love songs about the transformations that await us—whether we're ready or not."As the title suggests, these are songs for people entrapped by love. Sometimes it's a happy entrapment, but more often it's unhappy, and most of the time just inscrutable in the way that love can be. These stories are plain spoken and fine, not the least of which is the lead story, where a dying man with a deformity is revisited by his cousin, Clyde Barrow...yes, of Bonnie and Clyde fame...and the protagonist takes a Kodak picture of woundings upon woundings. The stories are also savvy and compelling. K. L. Cook knows the landscape of love in modern times perfectly."—John Keeble"Reading K. L. Cook's LOVE SONGS FOR THE QUARANTINED, I had the giddy feeling I was privy to a secret, that somehow I was being let in on a great, hidden story that few were lucky to read, and as I continued to the next story and the next, I had the same remarkable feeling. This is a lucid and luminous collection—an extraordinary book. K. L. Cook works a rare magic."—Debra Magpie Earling

Love Songs for the Quarantined

Cook, K. L.

Literature & Fiction

Willow Springs Editions

<p>Poetry. "These are poems of such compassionate energy and social power that they would make both Whitman and Neruda proud. James Nolan is the prodigy of both, at home in their company. A New Orleanian with a well-stamped passport, he knows the world's suffering and is a brilliant cartographer of our age. After the last century's horrors and orgies, his voice heralds with clarity the twenty-first century. 'Night School: A Lesson in the Columbus Continuous' is a masterpiece that needs to be in every textbook. It has the beat of a loving heart, the bite of truth's irony, and prophesizes America's future. Nolan is one of this country's treasures."—Andrei Codrescu</p>

Drunk on Salt (Acme Poem Company Surrealist Poetry, 4)

Nolan, James

History & Criticism

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Love Songs for the Quarantined

Drunk on Salt (Acme Poem Company Surrealist Poetry, 4)