Short Circuits: Aphorisms, Fragments and Literary Anomalies
Alex Stein
(Editor)
James Lough
(Editor)
Description
Following up on the success of their first anthology of aphorisms, Short Flights, editors James Lough and Alex Stein have returned with a new volume that expands on the theme of aphorisms to include other short form writing and concrete poetry and prose from several of the world's leading, award-winning, and bestsellling writers in the genre, including Charles Simic, Lydia Davis, Sarah Manguso, Jane Hirschfield, Joy Harjo, Yahia Labadidi, Claudia Rankine, and Stephen Dobyns.
Product Details
Price
$17.95
$16.69
Publisher
Schaffner Press
Publish Date
April 16, 2018
Pages
384
Dimensions
6.0 X 8.9 X 0.9 inches | 1.1 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781943156375
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About the Author
James Lough is the former director of the creative writing program at Savannah College of Art and Design, where he currently teaches full-time. He is the author of Sites of Insight, which won the Colorado Endowment of Humanities Award. He is also the winner of the Frank Waters Southwestern Writing Award for short fiction. He lives in Savannah, Georgia. Alex Stein is the author of two books of interviews, The Artist as Mystic: Conversations with Yahia Lababidi, and Made-Up Interviews with Imaginary Artists. He works at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Reviews
"This book, a compilation of what feel like urgent text messages from some of the 21st century's best writers, operates as an early warning system to the future of literary art. Crucial." DAVID SHIELDS Author of Reality Hunger and The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
"Short Circuits is a knockout beautiful book full of wonderful stuff that makes you laugh, smile, shake your head, admire writers, feel touched, honored, charmed, surprised, a little threatened, a lot thrilled. Lough & Company have done a brillian" FREDERICK BARTHELME Author of There Must Be Some Mistake
"Short Circuits is a knockout beautiful book full of wonderful stuff that makes you laugh, smile, shake your head, admire writers, feel touched, honored, charmed, surprised, a little threatened, a lot thrilled. Lough & Company have done a brillian" FREDERICK BARTHELME Author of There Must Be Some Mistake
