Description:
Philip James Shaw's collection of prayers to stillborn-pasts and never-futures sings alive what could have been. Containing ten previously published 'prepositions', and one final unpublished prayer, available for the first time in one pocket-sized compendium, here is the complete lyric.
Brief description:
Philip James Shaw, b. 1970 is a folk artist. He grew up in the fields of southeast Kansas and in the suburbs of Arizona in the times of the greatest march of homes eating the surrounding deserts. Then he lived in Seattle for three decades before moving to a windswept land sticking out into the Salish Sea. He is the recipient of the 2022 Fugue Prose Prize, as well as the 2013 Wild Light Award from The Los Angeles Review.
Review Quotes: "prepositions for elijah, with its sparkling language, kinetic imagery, lush detail, deep mining of memory, took hold of me immediately. This is writing that fills the expanse of consciousness, captures what it is like to think, to dream, to remember, to hold a moment, to go deep into its core until it bursts outwards, ever expanding, a world of its own, pure and beautiful, a dazzling wonder to behold."--Jenny Boully "
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