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The Weight of Certain Moments

The Weight of Certain Moments - Paperback

by Robert Scotellaro
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Availability:In StockContributor:Robert ScotellaroPublish date:6/24/2026Pages:108
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cervena Barva PressISBN-13:9798996573400UPC:9798996573400Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.26 inchesWeight:0.154Product ID:SCYYR6QM8K

The Weight of Certain Moments focuses on that territory where prose poetry/poetic prose/microfiction sometimes blend to form works that blur genre distinctions. What dwells between the lines, what is alluded to, speaks to what likely, is more at stake. Here, the borders are flexible beyond word count, a "middle world" where forms conjoin and are free to find their footing. And, there is tragicomedy in many of these pieces, reflecting that which is disquieting, in counterbalance to what is restorative.

The collection is divided into three sections: "Imperfect Gods" (family, personal and universal), "Connecting Flights" (our relationships with their tripwires, pathos, irony, and humor), and "Approximations" (our longings, misfires, revelations and connections with all their weights and pulleys).

The Weight of Certain Moments traverses this variegated territory, familiar, yet at a slant and approaching the vanishing point from unexpected directions.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cervena Barva PressISBN-13:9798996573400UPC:9798996573400Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.26 inchesWeight:0.154Product ID:SCYYR6QM8K
Scotellaro, Robert: - Robert Scotellaro is the author of 10 flash and microfiction collections including, most recently: From the Book of Atmospheres (Bamboo Dart Press, 2025), Breath and Shadow (co-authored with Meg Pokrass, MadHat Press 2024), Quick Adjustments (Blue Light Press, 2023), and Ways to Read the World (Scantic Books, 2022), as well as 5 collections of poetry. He has, along with James Thomas, co-edited New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, published by W.W. Norton & Co. His work has appeared widely and is included in Norton's Flash Fiction International and Flash Fiction America. Additionally, his work has been published in 7 Best Small Fictions and 3 Best Microfiction award anthologies. He is the winner of Zone 3's Rainmaker Prize in Poetry and the Blue Light Book Award for his fiction. Robert is one of the founding donors to the Ransom Flash Fiction Collection at The University of Texas, Austin. He lives in San Francisco. Visit him at: www.robertscotellaro.com
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