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a collection of 59 poems Percesepe's poetry seems straightforward
but is as complex as flowers, as summer shade and layers of
snowfall, available to all but folded around secrets only broken
lovers or philosophers grasp, and contained by no borrowed forms
but original truths and no meter but the throbs of a heart. He here
assays breakfast making and love making and loss and memory and
time and husbands and wives and offspring and always, always, the
elegance of the line, the object plain or sublime or both, the
landscapes of sex, sorrow and high style. James Robison Gary
Percesepe drops you into an ambiguous world and pulls you back
again, still reeling. He does it so deftly, you don't even realize
you're bleeding until it's over. Heather Cox, author of California
King
A collection of 26 flash fiction pieces. These rapid and arresting
short stories will keep you on your toes. Percesepe is a master of
sharp turns, and, oh, how greatly I admire the stuff he notices,
all of life's "brilliant surprises," and his concern with how
people who bust up stay apart, because what can we do with the
delayed understanding that happens after the leaving? This
collection is a tender rush. Pia Ehrhardt, author of 'Famous
Fathers & Other Stories' Gary Percesepe writes beautiful, vivid
stories with the intensity and brevity of a man on the run. His
fiction lights up the page with incredible bursts of poetry,
passion, and pain channeled through characters whose names we
rarely catch. In just a few short pages, Percesepe captures entire
worlds of emotion - all of it so true and real, it's impossible to
look away. Jessica Anya Blau, author of 'The Wonder Bread Summer'
What May Have Been is a novel in letters exchanged between the
artist Jackson Pollock and his fictional lover, a young woman
called Dori G. Susan Tepper and Gary Percesepe have created a sexy
and luminous love story that takes place sometime during the late
1940's, in that sandy wonderland at the eastern tip of Long Island
known as The Hamptons. Advance Praise for What May Have Been "In
this extraordinary novel, Pollock tells his lover that things like
paint and wives are very small in the scheme of things. Gary
Percesepe and Susan Tepper show how the great scheme of things is,
in fact, in literary art, captured in paint and wives and a Montauk
surf and a silky scarf and narrow hips and a cold water flat and a
used Ford. Brilliantly conceived, brilliantly executed, this is a
stunning book about art and about life." -Robert Olen Butler,
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange
Mountain "The fictional letters between Pollock and an imaginary
Dori G come out in a hailstorm of paint flecks, lockets, long
looks, kisses, blowing sand. Dori sees Jackson in his distance and
his nearing, and his return to her like the visit of one of the
Greek gods to his mortal lover, as piercing and as fatal." -Mary
Grimm, author of Left to Themselves and Stealing Time "How to
convey the irresistible pleasures of this novel in letters? The
language mimics the slashing, dramatic immediate heroic gestures of
abstract expressionism, is an extraordinary act of poetic
invention, and tells a sexy and doomed love story." -James Robison,
author of The Illustrator and Rumors "These two fervent voices
exude the splendor and gloom of adulterous love." -Mark Wisniewski,
author of Confessions of a Polish Used Car Salesman
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