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Short: An International Anthology of Five Centuries of Short-Short Stories, Prose Poems, Brief Essays, and Other Short Prose - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Alan Ziegler (Editor)Publish date:2014-03-26Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:Persea BooksISBN-13:9780892554324ISBN-10:892554320UPC:9780892554324Book Category:Literary Collections, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:RhetoricSize:8.38 x 5.43 x 0.93 inchesWeight:0.8598Product ID:SCC5X55HGN
Short prose forms are elusive to define--one writer's prose poem is another's flash fiction or brief essay. Rather than quibble, Short opts for inclusiveness. Here is a dazzling array: 100s of pieces (under 1250 words) from 24 Western countries, written over five centuries by more than 200 contributors, including major authors of every era. Fables, histories, aphorisms, anecdotes, faux dictionary entries, a faux job application, hint fiction, lists, tableaus, meditations, chants, rants, and much more. Intensely pleasurable.

Contributors include: Montaigne, von Kleist, Leopardi, Poe, Baudelaire, Bierce, Chopin, Stein, Jacob, Woolf, Kafka, J. Roth, Toomer, Borges, Queneau, Kunitz, Beckett, Milosz, Cortazar, Paz, Barthes, Calvino, O'Hara, Merwin, Lispector, Transtromer, Sanchez, Edson, Simic, Atwood, Valenzuela, Wideman, L. Davis, Komunyakaa, A. Carson, Forche, Harjo, Hempel, Wenderoth, Keret, B. Marcus, A. Bender, Eggers, B. Lerner, T. Brimhall.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Persea BooksISBN-13:9780892554324ISBN-10:892554320UPC:9780892554324Book Category:Literary Collections, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:RhetoricSize:8.38 x 5.43 x 0.93 inchesWeight:0.8598Product ID:SCC5X55HGN
Ziegler, Alan: - Alan Ziegler's books include Love at First Sight and The Writing Workshop Note Book. Professor of Writing at Columbia University, he has taught the short prose form for twenty-five years. He lives in New York.
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