George Looney

The Visibility of Things Long Submerged

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Dripping with Southern gothic flavors, [these short stories gaze] at the holy and the obscene while plumbing gritty secrets of the human heart. With swamps, alligators, revival tents, faith healers, sex, death, guilt, sin and snakes, Looney leads us through a dark landscape brimming with the miraculous and the peculiar alike"--

Produktdetails

• American Reader Series
• Verlag: BOA Editions, Limited
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 133mm x 203mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 190g
• ISBN-13: 9781950774944
• ISBN-10: 1950774945
• Artikelnr.: 64541242

Autorenporträt

George Looney is the author of three previous collections of fiction that have won the Leapfrog Press Fiction Award, The Elixir Press Fiction Award, and the Elixir Press Fiction Chapbook Award. He has also published thirteen collections of poetry, including books that won The Bluestem Award, The White Pine Press Poetry Prize, and The Red Mountain Press Poetry Prize. He is Distinguished Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, where he founded the BFA in Creative Writing Program and is editor of Lake Effect and translation editor of Mid-American Review (where he began the ongoing Translation Chapbook Series in 1983). With Phil Terman, he was co-founder of the original Chautauqua Writers’ Festival. He hopes to someday make it back to the Irish town of Kinsale in County Cork.