The Visibility of Things Long Submerged
George Looney
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Description
From poet George Looney comes a new short story collection that explores the essential nature of faith while plumbing the gritty secrets of the human heart. With swamps, alligators, revival tents, faith healers, sex, death, guilt, sin and snakes, Looney leads us through a dark landscape brimming with the miraculous and the peculiar alike. A man from a fire shows up on someone's doorstep, covered in ash and barely alive. One man's actions make an entire town question its own violence. A healer is bitten in half by an alligator as a crowd looks on. Dripping with Southern gothic, The Visibility of Things Long Submerged gazes at the obscure and obscene. Densely populated with characters that know intimately the trials of life and the restorative powers of love, these stories are filled with a deep longing for something beyond the restless disquiet.
Product Details
| Publisher | BOA Editions |
| Publish Date | May 23, 2023 |
| Pages | 184 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781950774944 |
| Dimensions | 7.9 X 5.2 X 0.5 inches | 0.4 pounds |
About the Author
George Looney is the author of three previous collections of fiction that have won the Leapfrog Press Fiction Award, The Elixir Press Fiction Award, and the Elixir Press Fiction Chapbook Award. He has also published thirteen collections of poetry, including books that won The Bluestem Award, The White Pine Press Poetry Prize, and The Red Mountain Press Poetry Prize. He is Distinguished Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, where he founded the BFA in Creative Writing Program and is editor of Lake Effect and translation editor of Mid-American Review (where he began the ongoing Translation Chapbook Series in 1983). With Phil Terman, he was co-founder of the original Chautauqua Writers' Festival. He hopes to someday make it back to the Irish town of Kinsale in County Cork.
Reviews
Praise for The Visibility of Things Long Submerged: "With sorrow and hilarity (Who among us wouldn't spend a Sunday morning at The Church of Jesus Christ Our Lover?), Looney's chorus of saints, preachers, sinners, doubters, organists and acrobats, the damned and the saved, the bombastic and the fragile, their bodies 'lost in their own flesh, ' their wetness 'a kind of weeping, ' calls at us from these pages for nothing but love, love not for the sake of the voices themselves but as the one and only savior of humankind. The prose is heart-stopping, and if the sexual revolution hadn't already happened, this splendid book might suffice."- Abby Frucht, author of Maids and Fruit of the Month
"George Looney is a seismographer, an anthropologist, an excavator of hard truths. He has the spirit of a poet and the bravado of a born raconteur--his stories are lively, surprising, alternately whimsical and terrifying, anchored by the weight of his impeccably turned sentences. In these tales of faith healers and magicians, car crashes and questionable relics, he has captured the strange beauty of our world and the people we travel with, a perilous journey that he traces through the cracks in our hearts and the certainty of our bones, above ground and below."
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