2008
First Published
4.25
Average Rating
88
Number of Pages
The book is a wonderful debut collection of prose poems and flash fictions, short short stories of beautiful precisions and understated passions. While the bricks with which Chinquee constructs her fictions - failed or failing relationships, childhood friendships, and the intricacies of family life - are not uncommon, the architecture she creates with them is rare indeed: stories now full of light, now somber, now opening the reader's eyes to an utterly new space.
Avg Rating
4.25
Number of Ratings
132
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Author
Kim Chinquee
Author · 6 books
Kim Chinquee's fiction, nonfiction and poetry have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies including The Nation, Ploughshares, Storyquarterly, Indiana Reveiw, Noon, Denver Quarterly, Conjunctions, Mississippi Review, New Orleans Review, Fiction, Willow Springs, and others. She is the recipient of three Pushcart Prizes and a Henfield Prize. Her collections OH BABY, PISTOL, VEER, SHOT GIRLS, WETSUIT, SNOWDOG and her novel PIPETTE were published by Ravenna Press; her collection of prose poems, PRETTY, was published by White Pine Press. She is an associate professor of English and creative writing at SUNY-Buffalo State University, Associate Editor of Midwest Review, Senior Editor of New World Writing and Chief Editor of ELJ (Elm Leaves Journal)..
