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Oh Baby: Flash Fictions and Prose Poetry

by Kim Chinquee

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Kim Chinquee's stories follow their own rules. They zigzag sentence by simple sentence, creating a dangerous territory that we can only detect by the emotional undercurrents she effortlessly creates. Like their titles, each piece is minimal in form but lingers inside a larger frame of thought. The line between story and poem is as blurry and magical as a childhood memory. Oh Baby is a fitting title for this great debut — it's both sexy and surprising.
Recommended by Kevin Sampsell, Powell's City of Books

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

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.

About the Author

Kim Chinquee's fiction and prose poetry had appeared in numerous journals including Noon, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Fiction, New Orleans Review, The South Carolina Review, Notre Dame Review, Mississippi Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Willow Springs, elimae, and many others. She is the recipient of a Henfield Prize and Pushcart Prize. She teaches creative writing in Michigan.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780979192180
Subtitle:
Flash Fictions and Prose Poetry
Author:
Chinquee, Kim
Publisher:
Ravenna Press
Subject:
General Poetry
Subject:
General
Publication Date:
February 2008
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
88
Dimensions:
8.04x5.07x.27 in. .30 lbs.

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