There’s a lot of running in Oh Baby, Kim Chinquee’s debut collection of flash fictions and prose poems. The opening story, “Batter,” is an evocative cluster of images and moments, suggesting a pivotal time in the character’s childhood, where, in the midst of domestic ruptures, she imagines herself at bat: “The coach said I was bunting. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Ravenna Press’
“Run, run, run, run. You better run all day. And run all night.”: On Kim Chinquee’s Oh Baby.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Kim Chinquee, Oh Baby, Ravenna Press on January 28, 2010 | 15 Comments »
Little Easter War Machine Rabbit
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Joseph Young, Easter Rabbit, Ravenna Press, M Sarki, Little War Machine, Micro-fictions on December 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »
There has been quite a bit of attention draw to Joseph Young’s Easter Rabbit, a collection of micro-fictions from Publishing Genius Press, so I wanted to take the opportunity to draw readers to another older book (2004) that has many of the same components of well-written, tightly-wound, intensely-structured lit: Little War Machine, by M Sarki, [...]