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Book Synopsis"So unexpected, so revelatory, such exquisite prose (and poetry) these 'sequences,' as the editors choose to call them, may be undefinable, but they are certainly not indescribable. I describe them as hypnotic, startling, and alive."--Dinty W. Moore Nothing to Declare is a ground-breaking anthology of cross-genre work. What you will find here are linked prose poems, narrative sequences, lyrical essays, koans, fairy tales, and epistolary addresses. It contains the work of over fifty writers including Nin Andrews, Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Marie Harris, Jim Harrison, Gian Lombardo, Debra Marquart, Julie Marie Wade, and Gary Young.
Table of ContentsContents Nickole Brown A Note from the Series Editor / Robert Alexander Richmond Burning / Nin Andrews Snow Magic / John Azrak The DH / Wendy Barker from Nothing between Us: The Berkeley Years / Eric Braun My Beard / Amy Knox Brown Four Episodes in the Life of the Sheridan Boulevard Troll / Nickole Brown Five Postcards from a Greece-bound Plane / Leah Browning Little Signs / Cathleen Calbert When Death Took a Holiday / Michael Campagnoli from Dispatches: Beirut (1982-84) / Christopher Citro The Little Book of Monsters / Jennifer Kwon Dobbs Myths to Have a Good Time / Jacqueline Doyle Dora / Russell Evatt Pocket Guides / Wesley Fairman Emma and The Rain / Elisabeth Frost Grace Court / Casey Fuller Alternate Bios / Molly Fuller Hold Your Breath / Maureen Gibbon Always Happy and Go Lucky / Sarah Goldstein from Fables / Jeffrey Greene Domestic Narratives / Sonia Greenfield In Parts / Carol Guess The Ruined Garden / Jessica Rae Hahn The Keeper of Records / Marie Harris Dear Scorpio: Letters to My Mother/Self / Jim Harrison Hospital / Pamela Hart Zuihitsu of a Spartan Woman / Holly Iglesias Nothing to Declare / Siel Ju The Locust of Desire / Elizabeth Kerlikowske Self-Portrait with Tutu / Robert King Looking at Houses / Jenn Koiter True/False / Elizabeth Langemak You / Gian Lombardo Equations / Christina Manweller Shucking / Debra Marquart Whisker Meditations / Kathleen McGookey Nine Letters / Monica Nawrocki Vancouver Conversations / Pamela Painter Art Tells Us . . . / Irena Praitis Bread / Alizabeth Rasmussen Commuting / William Reichard In Smith’s Mill / Richard Robbins Betrayals / Jim Ruland At the Orpheu Café / F. Daniel Rzicznek from Leafmold / Lucas Southworth A Dainty Network of Bones / Julie Stotz-Ghosh Haiku Sequence for Snow / Laura Tansley The Wake She Leaves like a Whirlpool / Bob Thurber ABCDEFG / Alison Townsend Coyote Crossings / C. W. Truesdale Doña Baby / Luisa Villani The Danger Creature Chronicles / Mark Vinz Tales from a Fourth Grade in the Fifties / Julie Marie Wade Just You Wait / Cecilia Woloch Shine / Gary Young I Want to Sing / Robert Alexander Afterword: Some Thoughts on the Prose Sequence / Contributors’ Notes / ?
