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An Orchard in the Street

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Evocative, playful, masterful brief fictions that explode with imagery detailing love, denial, and the squandered opportunities waiting around every corner.
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This new collection by award-winning author Reginald Gibbons explores human experience and memory in ordinary settings—city apartments, rural roads, soap operas, and juvenile court—as way to understand the depths of thought and feeling in our everyday encounters. These narrative meditations explode with imagery, looking and listening deeply into our everyday experience—the extraordinary within the ordinary, the impossible within the possible.

Reginald Gibbons is the author of numerous collections of poetry and fiction. His book Creatures of a Day was a poetry finalist for the National Book Award. He lives in Evanston, IL, where he teaches at Northwestern University.

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Price: $16.95
Pages: 152
Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.
Imprint: BOA Editions Ltd.
Publication Date: 10 October 2017
Trim Size: 8.00 X 5.25 in
ISBN: 9781942683490
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Visionary & Metaphysical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General
"There is never a moment in these pieces which breaks the reader's total immersion in Gibbons’ characters or those characters' equal immersion in the singular moments of their lives. Here is truth so close to beauty and beauty so close to truth as to make no difference which came first." —Kirkus Reviews
Reginald Gibbons is the author of 10 books of poems, the novel Sweetbitter, translations of ancient Greek and modern Spanish and Mexican poetry, and other works. His collection Creatures of a Day was a Finalist in Poetry for the National Book Award. He has won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Center for Hellenic Studies; as well as a number of book awards, including the Anisfield-Wolf Award for Sweetbitter. Born and raised in Houston, TX, he studied at Princeton University, Stanford University, and in Spain, and taught at Princeton, Rutgers University, and Columbia University. He now lives in Evanston, IL, where he served as the editor of TriQuarterly Magazine for 16 years, and is a Frances Hooper Professor of Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University.
CONTENTS

River
About Men
Mekong Restaurant
Five Pears or Peaches
Wonder
Bless This House
The Vanishing Point
No Matter What Has Happened This May
Money
Julius Johnson, 1995
In the City
A Man in a Suit
You Know Who This Is
Preparations for Winter
Dying with Words
Mission
On Belmont
Just Imagine
Small Business
On Assignment
Hide and Seek
Dead Man’s Things
Slow Motion
Persephone at Home
Courthouse
Hollister Road
Winter Friday
A Dream of Bill
Change the Goddamn Thing
What Happened
A Singular Accomplishment
Three Persons on a Crow
Arms
The Oldest Man in North America
The Living
All-Out Effort