Timeless yet timely and hopeful with a dark underbelly, these
fables revive a tradition running from Aesop to W.S. Merwin. With a
poet's mastery, Craig Morgan Teicher creates strange worlds
populated by animals fated for disaster and the people who interact
with them, or simply act like them, including a very sad boy who
wishes he had been raised by wolves. There are also a handful of
badly behaving gods, a talking tree, and a shape-shifting room.
Craig Morgan Teicher is poetry editor of "Publishers Weekly" and
a vice president on the board of the National Book Critics Circle.
He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
From The Brooklyn Rail:
"The great challenge of literature is always changing, is as
mutable as our striving and forgetful cultures- but always, it is
some part of the author's job description to strip away our truisms
and describe the gaping unknown. Teicher, in Cradle Book, sits
somewhere on the other side, and transmits."
From Powell's Books:
"Instead of the artifical clarity of the carefully orchestrated
life evident in so much narrative realism, these pieces seek to
explore what we don't understand, to open up questions that lead to
more questions...Fables in the truest sense, these exquisite
stories offer a sense of wonder even as they lead us deeper and
deeper into the darkness of the unconscious."
General
Imprint: |
B O a Editions, Limited
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
American Readers Series |
Release date: |
May 2010 |
First published: |
June 2010 |
Authors: |
Craig Morgan Teicher
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Dimensions: |
203 x 133 x 8mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
72 |
Edition: |
First |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-934414-35-4 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-934414-35-2 |
Barcode: |
9781934414354 |
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