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Flash Gardens, and Other Short Fiction: Volume One
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ISBN10: 1681145995
ISBN13: 9781681145990
Publisher: Anaphora Literary Press
Published: Jul 13 2023
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781681145990
Publisher: Anaphora Literary Press
Published: Jul 13 2023
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This first volume of Flash Gardens compiles short fictional pieces by the author, written over a span of years and mostly all published in journal and magazines in both America and abroad. The author contends that all poetry and fiction is autobiographical in the sense that experience filters through an individual mind and must therefore reflect the wisdom or ignorance of that mind as well as temperamental quirks, psychological issues, philosophical biases and breadth of knowledge. This is nothing new-the so-called New Journalism of the sixties and seventies made a similar point: because reportage is interpreted by individual minds, objectivity is an illusion (example-the work of Hunter Thompson). Hence, in some way, whatever the occasion or subject matter, the fiction in Flash Gardens represents the impressions and takes of the author, whether the subject matter involves genuine physical experiences or musings upon science or psychological dilemmas.
The locale of the stories shifts mostly between places the author has known well either by living within or visiting-mainly New Orleans and southwest Virginia. The characters are almost inevitably people the author knows and has known, with proper fictional alterations.
The tone of the stories varies wildly, from acute sentimentality to the aforementioned illusion of objectivity. But their overwhelming climate seems melancholy (tempered often by dashes of humor) that involves an aching sense of loss and nostalgia for the past. And why not? Our sense of the present moment lasts about only two hundred milliseconds, which means that the past constitutes our entire identities, while the future is too diffuse to fathom. The seven volumes of Louis Gallo's poetry are: Archaeology, Scherzo Furiant, Crash, Clearing the Attic, Ghostly Demarcation & The Pandemic Papers, Why Is There Something Rather than Nothing? and Leeway & Advent. His work appeared in Best Short Fiction 2020. A novella, The Art Deco Lung, appeared in Storylandia. National Public Radio aired a reading and discussion of his poetry on its With Good Reason series (December 2020). His work has appeared or will shortly appear in Wide Awake in the Pelican State (LSU anthology), Southern Literary Review, Fiction Fix, Glimmer Train, Hollins Critic, Rattle, Southern Quarterly, Litro, New Orleans Review, Xavier Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Missouri Review, Mississippi Review, Texas Review, Baltimore Review, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, The Ledge, storySouth, Houston Literary Review, Tampa Review, Raving Dove, The Journal (Ohio), Greensboro Review, and many others. Chapbooks include The Truth Changes, The Abomination of Fascination, Status Updates and The Ten Most Important Questions of the Twentieth Century. He is the founding editor of the now defunct journals, The Barataria Review and Books: A New Orleans Review. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize several times. He is the recipient of an NEA grant for fiction. He teaches at Radford University in Radford, Virginia. He is a native of New Orleans.
The tone of the stories varies wildly, from acute sentimentality to the aforementioned illusion of objectivity. But their overwhelming climate seems melancholy (tempered often by dashes of humor) that involves an aching sense of loss and nostalgia for the past. And why not? Our sense of the present moment lasts about only two hundred milliseconds, which means that the past constitutes our entire identities, while the future is too diffuse to fathom. The seven volumes of Louis Gallo's poetry are: Archaeology, Scherzo Furiant, Crash, Clearing the Attic, Ghostly Demarcation & The Pandemic Papers, Why Is There Something Rather than Nothing? and Leeway & Advent. His work appeared in Best Short Fiction 2020. A novella, The Art Deco Lung, appeared in Storylandia. National Public Radio aired a reading and discussion of his poetry on its With Good Reason series (December 2020). His work has appeared or will shortly appear in Wide Awake in the Pelican State (LSU anthology), Southern Literary Review, Fiction Fix, Glimmer Train, Hollins Critic, Rattle, Southern Quarterly, Litro, New Orleans Review, Xavier Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Missouri Review, Mississippi Review, Texas Review, Baltimore Review, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, The Ledge, storySouth, Houston Literary Review, Tampa Review, Raving Dove, The Journal (Ohio), Greensboro Review, and many others. Chapbooks include The Truth Changes, The Abomination of Fascination, Status Updates and The Ten Most Important Questions of the Twentieth Century. He is the founding editor of the now defunct journals, The Barataria Review and Books: A New Orleans Review. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize several times. He is the recipient of an NEA grant for fiction. He teaches at Radford University in Radford, Virginia. He is a native of New Orleans.
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