The Secret Life of Mannequins
My new chapbook is out from Kattywompus Press. I love chapbooks, and I really like the editors of this tiny new press in Cleveland. I love the brevity of chapbooks. I think of them as test-runs, and I feel more free to print whatever I feel like at the time. I think everyone should write a few chapbooks in between their larger works.
This particular collection has a few of my semi-essays in it. By semi-essays, I suppose I mean what most people call creative nonfiction, a term that has always troubled me. How much is creative and how much is nonfiction? Sometimes I read samples of creative nonfiction in magazines, and the pieces seem to have nothing to do with reality, and everything to do with creativity . . . I am not sure what to make of them.
A few examples from my chapbook:
Stock Market Cycle
And a poem (which I have since edited a bit):
"Learning to Write the MFA Poem"
1 comment:
I love that MFA poem.
Viva a bit of wicked every now and again.
(Mixed in with the good, or course.)
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