by Sara Veglahn (36 pages) | bio
This prose-poem sequence opens with the following sentence:
"Scenes left on the cutting room floor flower into their own scenery."
Such an auspiciously suggestive start functions as a distillation of
the book’s prismatic echo chamber, where painterly lyricism and
narrative probing converge within each musically astute sentence.
This is a symphony of partial happenings, ghostly movements, and
investigatory ruminations, a stroll through an exhibit of paintings
that seem to stare back at the viewer: captivating, gorgeous, and
just a little bit scary. Sara Veglahn's latest chapbook is Closed
Histories (Noemi Press, 2008). Recent work appears or is forthcoming
in 26, Conjunctions, Fence, Sleepingfish, Tarpaulin Sky, Thuggery
& Grace, Trickhouse, and elsewhere. She teaches prose workshops
and literature seminars in Naropa University's Department of Writing
and Poetics and is the current Associate Editor of the Denver Quarterly.