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Surreal South '07: An Anthology of Short Fiction and Poetry

Welcome to the dream world. What you are about to encounter is the unfiltered stuff of the dream, and that is wild, terrifying, provocative, and unsettling material. In this volume, some of the best living Southern writers are offering up a feast of their dreams, wonderful and awful in equal measure, for you to enjoy. These dream stories and poems will tell you what you have always known, but what you are too afraid to say out loud in the full light of day: that we are a race of chimeras, beings made up of the incompatible parts of innumerable mutually antagonistic creatures. Our pieces do not fit together. We are, when were willing to tell the truth about ourselves, surreal at our hearts. Welcome to the Surreal South.

Contents:

The echo of neighborly bones by Daniel Woodrell

Sales call by Susan Woodring

Help me find my spaceman lover by Robert Olen Butler

Willows / The swan by Rodney Jones

The river that was my father / Poem in the ninth month by Beth Ann Fennelly

Fat lighter by George Singleton

Sautéing the platygast by Dean Paschal

Pig helmet & the wall of life by Pinckney Benedict

The drinking gourd by Katie Estill

Swans by Benjamin Percy

The Bear Bryant funeral train by Brad Vice

Night by Jacinda Townsend

Dog song by Ann Pancake

The era of great numbers by Lee K. Abbott

Decirculating the monkey by Chris Offutt

Corpse bird by Ron Rash

Mother by Andrew Hudgins

The widow Sunday by Kathy Conner

Smonk gets out alive by Tom Franklin

Witches, all by Laura Benedict

The paperhanger by William Gay

Silver man / Dinner date by Joy Beshears Hay

Crazy ladies by Greg Johnson

Cactus Vic and his marvelous magical elephant / The best chicken in Arkansas by Jon Tribble

Birdfists by Julianna Baggott

The bingo master by Joyce Carol Oates

The truth and all its ugly by Kyle Minor

Contributors biographies & notes

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 380
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780979304972
  • Release date
  • 2007