| Pink Motel Contributor(s): White, Patti (Author) |
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ISBN: 1934695513 ISBN-13: 9781934695517 Publisher: Anhinga Press OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Women Authors |
| LCCN: 2017930458 |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.45 lbs) 98 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: ''You are not here'' says the sign in the corn maze. In ''Pink Motel,'' knowledge comes enfolded in maps and diagrams, old board games, cracks in the ceiling, everything we use to tell us where we are and how we got there. What if the interstate is a mobius strip and the restaurant offers us a casserole of hearts? How, White asks, can we account for the journey that brought us to this place? This haunting book takes us from the Badlands to the subways of New York, and reminds us that the very gravity that holds us to the earth is suspect, that only language saves us from the maps that flap away like owls, the off-ramps that lead only to soybean fields, the railway station where we wait for the last train that will ever come. |
Contributor Bio(s): White, Patti: - Patti White was raised in the military; she has now lived in eleven states, some of them twice. She studied intergroup relations at the University of Kentucky, then moved to Colorado to do pre-sentence investigations for the Fourth Judicial District courts. She returned to school to study contemporary narrative and literary theory, and now teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Alabama, where she co-founded Slash Pine Press. Her work has appeared in a number of journals, including Iowa Review, River Styx, North American Review, Forklift Ohio, New Madrid, Slippery Elm, and Gulf Coast. Patti is currently at work on a novella with eight narrators, a tornado outbreak, the somewhat undead, and the mysterious disappearance of the State of Mississippi. |