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Book Description
Precise Machine is a collection of poetic fictions that swell with simultaneous dimensions. The pieces take us around the globe and through history in an epic of moments large and small: a bike's flat tire, a teenage comeuppance, an Italian city destroyed by plague. The prose seduces and derails, then ensnares again. Barone invites us at once to inhabit his stories and retreat to the periphery to query how experience itself is recorded, catalogued and remembered. Infused not with certitude but with the far more human condition of ambivalence, these fictions are parables that do not patronize.
About the Author
Dennis Barone's work has appeared in the Chicago Review, The Prose Poem: An International Journal, and Quarter After Eight among others. Barone has edited numerous collections and published several books of fiction, including Temple of the Rat and Echoes. In 1992 he held the Thomas Jefferson Chair, a distinguished lecturing award in the Netherlands. He is Chair of the English Department at Saint Joseph College in West Hartford, Connecticut.
Precise Machine,Dennis Barone,Quale Press,0974450375,English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,Poetry,Dennis Barone,Fiction / Literary
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