A Thing Is Only Known When It Is Gone
Autor Joe Baumannen Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 mar 2025
The stories in A Thing Is Only Known When It Is Gone are told in lyrical, often startling prose. Baumann’s experimentation with the surreal avoids gimmick and easy metaphor, keeping the complexity of the characters at the center. The strange worlds of these protagonists distort and reflect our own back to us, like the funhouse mirrors in “Morphology” that begin to change the fabric of reality.
Ultimately, we may not want to live in a world in which our broken hearts are on display in external birdcages attached to our bodies. But Baumann’s sophisticated, nuanced storytelling makes us wonder, however briefly, whether such a world might be preferable to ours. The emotional poignancy at the heart of each of these stories reaches across the strangeness of all of our possible worlds, tying us together in the universal search for connection.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780299348946
ISBN-10: 0299348946
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 0 illus.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN-10: 0299348946
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 0 illus.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Notă biografică
Joe Baumann is the chair of the MFA in Writing program at Lindenwood University. He is the author of Lake, Drive: A Novel, Where Can I Take You When There’s Nowhere to Go, and Tell Me: Stories.
Cuprins
Exoskeleton
Do to Me What I Can Do to You
Still Life
Kiss Blossoms
A River in Your Chest
Message
The Forgetter
After Glow
Take Me Somewhere, Bring Me Back
Before Something Else Is Gone
Snow Birds
The House on the Edge of the Canyon
Morphology
Sons of the Sleeping Mothers
Delicate Creature
Inflation
Where You Go, I’ll Follow
Home Wrecker
A Thing Is Only Known When It Is Gone
Twilight in Heroland
Acknowledgments
Do to Me What I Can Do to You
Still Life
Kiss Blossoms
A River in Your Chest
Message
The Forgetter
After Glow
Take Me Somewhere, Bring Me Back
Before Something Else Is Gone
Snow Birds
The House on the Edge of the Canyon
Morphology
Sons of the Sleeping Mothers
Delicate Creature
Inflation
Where You Go, I’ll Follow
Home Wrecker
A Thing Is Only Known When It Is Gone
Twilight in Heroland
Acknowledgments