A Girl Goes Into the Forest
Peg Alford Pursell
(Author)
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Description
*Founder and director of the national reading series Why There Are Words and founder and director of WTAW Press*Author's stories and poems have appeared in Permafrost, the Los Angeles Review, Forklift Ohio, Joyland Magazine, 100 Word Story, and many other journals
*Work has appeared in anthologies including Nothing Short Of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story, 50 over 50, Writers' e-Handbook, and Fragmentation and Other Stories *Previous collection featured in Poets & Writers magazine's second annual 5 over 50 and in 7x7 Magazine's "7 Spring Reads: Books You Need to Read Right Now"
*Previous collection was widely reviewed, including interviews and features in Entropy, The Rumpus, The Nervous Breakdown, Prosody Radio, and LitStack, among other outlets
*Finalist for the 2017 Indies Book of the Year, the Eric Hoffer Award, and the J L Chapbook Award by the Florida Review
*One story from the collection - "Starflower (I Want Her Back)" - has been nominated by The Mom Egg Review for the Best Small Fictions 2018
*Pursell has significant online reach through her own social media accounts and the accounts associated with Why There Are Words
*Pursell also has connections to local independent booksellers, including City Lights, Point Reyes, and The Booksmith
*Author is a well-connected staple of the literary community
Product Details
Price
$16.95
$15.76
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Publish Date
July 16, 2019
Pages
136
Dimensions
5.4 X 0.7 X 8.4 inches | 0.6 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781945814877
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About the Author
Peg Alford Pursell is the author of is the author of Show Her a Flower, A Bird, A Shadow, a collection of hybrid with praise from Peter Orner, Joan Silber, Antonya Nelson, Glen David Gold, and others, and featured by Poets & Writers magazine's second annual 5 over 50, December 2017. Her work has appeared in Permafrost, the Los Angeles Review, Joyland Magazine, and other journals and anthologies. She is the founder and director of the national reading series Why There Are Words and of WTAW Press. She lives in Northern California.
Reviews
Advance Praise for A Girl Goes Into the Forest "In these wistful, expansive stories, Peg Alford Pursell holds up a mirror to our lives and relationships. The stories excavate the lives of her narrators with honesty and clear, luminous prose. They are mysterious in the way the best fiction is--their truths echoing long after you turn the page."
--Karen E. Bender, National Book Award finalist and author of Refund "The stories in A GIRL GOES INTO THE FOREST are as beautiful and fine as a string of pearls and as complex as a thousand-piece puzzle. Each one is like a doorway through which we glimpse an entire universe."
--Ramona Ausubel, author of Awayland and Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty "A GIRL GOES INTO THE FOREST is nominally a collection of stories, but in its thrilling and original presentation, the book defies categorization. Pursell is a writer of precise and gorgeously riveting images, and her sentences shimmer with the spaciousness and lyricism of poetry. Reading these tales is to be drawn into worlds that feel at once recognizable and mythic. The effect is transporting."
-Marisa Silver, author of Little Nothing and Mary Coin "In seventy-eight viscerally powerful stories, Pursell masterfully reinvents the contemporary terrors and wonders that have faced the runaways and the revenants in our oldest tales. Passage by amazing passage, these interrelated stories capture the desiring and sorrowing and believing that can become threatening and then harmless and, at last, fatal. A spellbinding world."
-Kevin McIlvoy, author of The Complete History of New Mexico and Other Stories "The ordinary lives of parents, daughters, husbands, wives, illness and grief are transformed in Pursell's second collection, A GIRL GOES INTO THE FOREST. Here, the lucky reader enters a 'forest' brimming with enchantments, daily life turned transcendent and strange, but no less moving. Assembled like a luminous mosaic of stained glass, these seventy-eight tales read like prose poems--a pitch-perfect condensation of moments, inflected by Pursell's uncanny ear for the lyric. A wonder of a book!"
-Karen Brennan, author of Monsters "A GIRL GOES INTO THE FOREST runs like a collection of melted fairy tales in which archetypes of gender and culture are warped and subverted in the crucible of Pursell's formidable intellect. These are stories of a variety that Joy Williams would recognize, tales broken all to pieces and hidden away in a weird apothecary. Pull open a drawer. See what hides within."
--Christian Kiefer, author of Phantoms
--Karen E. Bender, National Book Award finalist and author of Refund "The stories in A GIRL GOES INTO THE FOREST are as beautiful and fine as a string of pearls and as complex as a thousand-piece puzzle. Each one is like a doorway through which we glimpse an entire universe."
--Ramona Ausubel, author of Awayland and Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty "A GIRL GOES INTO THE FOREST is nominally a collection of stories, but in its thrilling and original presentation, the book defies categorization. Pursell is a writer of precise and gorgeously riveting images, and her sentences shimmer with the spaciousness and lyricism of poetry. Reading these tales is to be drawn into worlds that feel at once recognizable and mythic. The effect is transporting."
-Marisa Silver, author of Little Nothing and Mary Coin "In seventy-eight viscerally powerful stories, Pursell masterfully reinvents the contemporary terrors and wonders that have faced the runaways and the revenants in our oldest tales. Passage by amazing passage, these interrelated stories capture the desiring and sorrowing and believing that can become threatening and then harmless and, at last, fatal. A spellbinding world."
-Kevin McIlvoy, author of The Complete History of New Mexico and Other Stories "The ordinary lives of parents, daughters, husbands, wives, illness and grief are transformed in Pursell's second collection, A GIRL GOES INTO THE FOREST. Here, the lucky reader enters a 'forest' brimming with enchantments, daily life turned transcendent and strange, but no less moving. Assembled like a luminous mosaic of stained glass, these seventy-eight tales read like prose poems--a pitch-perfect condensation of moments, inflected by Pursell's uncanny ear for the lyric. A wonder of a book!"
-Karen Brennan, author of Monsters "A GIRL GOES INTO THE FOREST runs like a collection of melted fairy tales in which archetypes of gender and culture are warped and subverted in the crucible of Pursell's formidable intellect. These are stories of a variety that Joy Williams would recognize, tales broken all to pieces and hidden away in a weird apothecary. Pull open a drawer. See what hides within."
--Christian Kiefer, author of Phantoms
