{"product_id":"boiling-lake-on-voyage-short-stories-paperback","title":"Boiling Lake (On Voyage): short stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSharyn O'Mara\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator), \u003cb\u003eSharon White\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe very short stories in \u003cb\u003eBoiling Lake (On Voyage)\u003c\/b\u003e inhabit the voices of travelers from the past, present, future - and other worlds. The tales take their language from exploration narratives and the terrain of the heart. Written with the authority and inventiveness of an award-winning poet, these tales challenge and unsettle the reader just as foreign landscapes force us to reexamine our identity in the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for Boiling Lake (On Voyage)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"With mad singing in strange lands and familiar places, these tiny stories speak a language of dark lyricism. Unleashing the unconscious, White dares to venture through a tapestry of nightmare memories to illuminate strange moments of reality bordered by pure beauty. The book flies fast and free on the wings of words lit by the light on the moon.\" -Aimee Parkison, author, \u003ci\u003eThe Petals of Your Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"\u003cb\u003eBoiling Lake (On Voyage)\u003c\/b\u003e is that place of in-betweens, mergings, undefinable spaces where the familiar rubs up against and engages the exotic and unknown: the so-called \"human\" world and the natural one; the America of strip malls and the America as it appears to a Mexican immigrant; a series of islands described from the viewpoint of voyagers across the temporal spectrum of history and the inhabitants of those islands; a woman's body in a catalog of materialist and feminist protestations. These voyages are described in a series of blunt, uncompromising prose pieces, in search of an unknown destination, a \"fertile country inhabited by sweet dispositioned savages who can be harnessed and used to good advantage.\" The striking energy and territory of \u003cb\u003eBoiling Lake (On Voyage)\u003c\/b\u003e is a deeply conflicted cultural, metaphysical, and psycho-sexual space, a myriad, cubistic series of personae and forgotten voices that make our post-natural world both new again and hauntingly known.\" -Sam Witt, poet, \u003ci\u003eSunflower Brother\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEverlasting Quail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSharon White's book, \u003ci\u003eVanished Gardens: Finding Nature in Philadelphia, \u003c\/i\u003e won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs award in creative nonfiction. She is also the author of two collections of poetry, \u003ci\u003eEve \u0026amp; Her Apple\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBone House.\u003c\/i\u003e Her memoir, \u003ci\u003eField Notes, A Geography of Mourning, \u003c\/i\u003e received the Julia Ward Howe Prize, Honorable Mention, from the Boston Authors Club. \u003ci\u003eBoiling Lake\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the Iowa Prize in Fiction. Some of her other awards include the Italo Calvino prize in Fabulist Fiction, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction, the Leeway Foundation Award for Achievement, a Colorado Council on the Arts Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her poems, essays, and articles have appeared in many magazines and journals including \u003ci\u003eISLE, Ecozon@, Isotope, Appalachia, Kalliope\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNorth American Review.\u003c\/i\u003e She teaches writing at Temple University in Philadelphia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 174\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 24, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52539884273971,"sku":"9781937543587","price":31.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/NmR5Y2swYkFqSWxITkx6RWJkUXVaZz09.webp?v=1760864294","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/boiling-lake-on-voyage-short-stories-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}