Another Random Heart
By Sara Veglahn
2009
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Poetry. This prose-poem sequence opens with the following "Scenes left on the cutting room floor flower into their own scenery." Such an auspiciously suggestive start functions as a distillation of the book's prismatic echo chamber, where painterly lyricism and narrative probing converge within each musically astute sentence. This is a symphony of partial happenings, ghostly movements, and investigatory ruminations, a stroll through an exhibit of painting that seem to stare back at the captivating, gorgeous, and just a little bit scary. Sara Veglahn is the author of several chapbooks, teaches prose workshops and literature seminars in Naropa's Department of Writing and Poetics and is the current Associate Editor of the DENVER QUARTERLY.
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Sara Veglahn
Author · 4 books
Sara Veglahn was born and raised in the American Midwest. Her novel, The Mayflies, was recently published by Dzanc in May 2014. An excerpt from her novel, The Ladies, was recently published as a chapbook by New Herring Press. She is also the author of three other chapbooks: Closed Histories (Noemi Press, 2008); Falling Forward (Braincase Press, 2003); and Another Random Heart, recently republished by Letter Machine Editions (2009). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Caketrain, Conjunctions, Sleepingfish, Octopus, Fence, 26, Trickhouse, Tarpaulin Sky, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in writing from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and a PhD in literature and writing from the University of Denver. She currently lives in Denver.
