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Short TalksAnne CarsonBrick Books, 2005In 45 "short talks," each a paragraph in length, Anne Carson covers a range of disparate subjects--the Mona Lisa, Ovid, Van Gogh, hedonism, hopes, trout--in a quirky, fascinating manner.Here's "Short Talk on Van Gogh":"The reason I drink is to understand the yellow sky the great yellow sky, said Van Gogh. When he looked at the world he saw the nails that

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I have added a list of prose poem and flash fiction contest links to the righthand column. Those with the nearest deadline are listed first. Good luck!

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Joseph Cornell's DreamsEdited and with an introduction by Catherine CormanExact Change, 2007This book is literally what the title says it is: a collection of assemblage artist Joseph Cornell's dreams. He obsessively recorded the details of his daily life; his journal runs into some 30,000 pages. From this massive work, Catherine Corman has selected 115 dreams as recorded by Cornell. The dreams

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No Barrier: Unlocking the Zen Koantranslated by Thomas ClearyBantamBilled as a translation of the Wumenguan, a classic collection of Chinese Zen koans and commentary, this book is far more than that. Thomas Cleary, translator of such Asian religious texts as the I Ching and the bestselling The Art of War, supplements the original thirteenth century version of Wumenguan with much new material. For

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Telegrams of the Soulby Peter AltenbergArchipelago BooksUnsuccessful at law, medicine, and the book trade, it was only by chance that Richard Englander discovered his skill at writing when he was in his 40s. The son of a wealthy Viennese businessman, Englander took the pen name of Peter Altenberg and found success as a newspaper writer of brief sketches and vignettes, which he called "prose

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The Skewed Talesby H. C. ArtmannAtlas PressAustrian novelist H. C. Artmann is the author of many books. In The Skewed Tales, he takes classic horror and fantasy characters and situations and mixes them into a potent satirical brew. His "Frankenstein in Sussex," for example, has the classic monster of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly meet Ernest Dodgson's Alice in an underground mansion a hundred

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The BalloonistsEula BissHanging Loose PressWritten as a series of brief, self-contained prose poems, Eula Biss's memoir-as-fiction/fiction-as-memoir advances by fits and starts, giving a glimpse here, a sideglance there, until it accumulates its story. This is much the way life itself develops--not in a smooth trajectory but in daily, disconnected installments. Biss's story revolves around her

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Choose Your Own Worldby Edouard RoditiAsylum ArtsEdouard Roditi is credited with being the first writer in the English language to use the word "surrealism." This was back in 1929, when Roditi was a precocious student at Oxford University and apparently one of the few people in England at the time to know much about that new artistic sensation from across the channel. In an essay entitled "The

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The Peacock Emperor Mothby Marcel Cohentranslated by Cid CormanBurning DeckMarcel Cohen's The Peacock Emperor Moth is a collection of one hundred brief stories ranging from a single sentence to a few paragraphs in length. Concerned with personal tragedies, unfortunate fates and melancholic memories, Cohen's stories are so brief that they often read like a simple plot synopsis for a more complete

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Late Night Callsby Mark VinzNew Rivers PressA professor of English at Moorhead State University, Mark Vinz here gathers together his prose poems--brief, no-frills recountings of his everyday life, neither sordid enough to be called confessional nor dramatized enough to be pure fiction. He writes of the "blue stuff" used to clean toilets, the joys of taking an afternoon nap, and the problem of

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Novels in Three Linesby Felix Feneontranslated by Luc SanteNew York Review BooksA behind-the-scenes figure in artistic Paris of the 1890s, Felix Feneon never published a book of his own. But he was widely admired as a great stylist, though most of his writing was published anonymously, either in literary journals of the day or in anarchist publications. Feneon also edited Rimbaud's Illuminations,

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