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a river unraveled
angela muir's a river unraveled, shifts between poetic forms, from prose poems to splayed open lines, shaped by rich pensive language and deeply spiritual undertones. the narrative moves from a pilgrimage in India, through a multilayered unraveling, and is finally sewed together with a series of contemplations. drawing from a palette of yoga, science, and nature, the poet seems to be distilling a truth we must experience to know.
Once Upon a Time
Daniel Schwartz's debut collection of poems Once Upon a Time "astounds with its acrid and self-steeling figurative power." In this phantasmagoric journey, Schwartz offers readers a kind of "genetic account of creation" -- a creation that is simultaneously an excavation of the speaker's own mind, never quite ending or arriving, looping always ecstatically back on itself. Called by one reader a "contemporary theophany," Schwartz's collection transfigures the emotional landscape of childhood -- our immemorial family drama -- into incandescent abstraction, an imagistic anti-thinking whose dark intensities are strange and joyous
Ripponlea 6: Fever Fall
Johnny Murray’s Ripponlea is a seven-volume illustrated novel. The following is an excerpt from the pages of volume six, Fever Fall:
Her thoughts and emotions didn’t seem to be her own. They became bleak and unworthy, or hopelessly scattered.
Or worse — tightly focused, locked in an unbreakable spiral. A spiral that centered on one thing.
Someone who waited for her under the earth.
Fever Fall contains chapters 78 through 91 of Ripponlea and includes eleven illustrations.
Bailey Anne Barnum's Book of Worlds
When cat-loving, purple-haired Bailey Anne Barnum finds herself in a strange land surrounded by giant cats angry at her for squishing their king, falling on him like a house on a witch, she has to wonder how on earth she got here.
Growing up, her storytelling father, Barney, cared for her at home while her mother, brave Beatrice, was out saving the world. Bailey never questioned this narrative when she was little, but she was too old now to believe in it, wasn't she? When Barney's stories of Beatrice's adventures start bleeding into real life, including those about the mouse knight, Lady Nimn, Bailey wonders if there wasn't more than a grain of fact in her family's fictions.
Can Bailey use her own history to solve the mystery of her present predicament and, ultimately, find a path to safety?
Ripponlea 5: Emerald Tendrils
Johnny Murray’s Ripponlea is a seven-volume illustrated novel. The following is an excerpt from the pages of volume five, Emerald Tendrils:
The mirror begins to crack. The hand clenches, as if in sudden pain.
More cracks appear.
The flowers mutter. They slacken and droop.
The hand begins to withdraw, grasping at empty air as it recedes.
Just before it vanishes, it makes a beckoning motion, as if to follow it.
Then it sinks into the mirror and is gone.
Emerald Tendrils contains chapters 64 through 77 of Ripponlea and includes nine illustrations.
Ripponlea 4: A Cast of the Die
Johnny Murray’s Ripponlea is a seven-volume illustrated novel. The following is an excerpt from the pages of volume four, A Cast of the Die:
A click-click-clicking sounded from somewhere inside the clown thing, and its head and shoulders jerked upright as if pulled by unseen strings.
It tilted its painted face first toward Sebastian, then to Christabel, then back to Sebastian.
And then it shot out a bony hand and grabbed Sebastian’s wrist.
A Cast of the Die contains chapters 52 through 63 of Ripponlea and includes ten illustrations.
Ripponlea 3: Visitants
Johnny Murray’s Ripponlea is a seven-volume illustrated novel. The following is an excerpt from the pages of volume three, Visitants:
“Yes, this is the year,” Katie answered at last. She lifted the wine bottle in a mock salute to the city below and smiled bitterly.
“This is the year they come for me.”
Visitants contains chapters 33 through 51 of Ripponlea and includes eleven illustrations.
Ripponlea 2: Lost Provenance
Johnny Murray’s Ripponlea is a seven-volume illustrated novel. The following is an excerpt from the pages of volume two, Lost Provenance:
In April it hatched, the egg in my heart.
Little cracks formed, snaking out across the surface of the shell. Then the color drained to palest white, and out popped the head of a worm, eyeless but with teeth.
The worm shivered, shaking the eggshell into pieces.
“Worm,” I whispered, “Little-worm-new, you are here in my heart. What will you do?”
The worm did not answer.
It poked its head blindly, wriggled about in my heart, and began to gnaw a hole.
Lost Provenance contains chapters 22 through 32 of Ripponlea and includes seven illustrations.
Ripponlea 1: I Promise I’ll Come Back the Same
Johnny Murray’s Ripponlea is a seven-volume illustrated novel. The following is an excerpt from the pages of volume one, I Promise I’ll Come Back the Same:
Sebastian took care not to lose his balance as he reached into the river. His arm was immersed up to the shoulder, his face mere inches from the water.
Almost there.
Almost.
But just as his fingers stretched to grasp the bright gem, it appeared to blink. And something — something quite large and horrible — stirred to life around it.
I Promise I'll Come Back the Same contains chapters 1 through 21 of Ripponlea and includes fourteen illustrations.
