- Paperback: 376 pages
- Publisher: Red Hen Press (Mar 1 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1888996218
- ISBN-13: 978-1888996210
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 431 g
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We began in the dark, and from the dark, we created myths, stories, the children of Israel wandering in the wilderness, Odysseus returning home, Buddha sitting lotus quiet. We had a few good stories to sustain our wanderings.
Over several thousand years, the fire of myths began to burn out. Or we burned them out. We burned Troy, the prophets, and Joan of Arc, and finally, as one myth after another descended onto the pile of ashes, we found ourselves outside the church, the cathedral, the pyramid, the synagogue, with no path, and no journey. No Holy Grail to seek for, no reason to seek a grail. We pick up the skull of the storyteller, turn it over in our hands, fumbling for the eye sockets that used to see something. We don't know how to handle the skull, with what ritual to bury it, what song to sing for the dead or the living. The stories in this collection, address this place in which we've found ourselves, more aware of the dead than the living. The dead had their myths and their fire.
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A Stellar Collection of Contemporary Fiction, May 24 2008
By Keleigh Friedrich - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: BLUE CATHEDRAL (Paperback)
Red Hen Press is a small nonprofit based out of Los Angeles. Knowing that, I wasn't expecting this anthology to carry so much literary weight. From Tobias Wolff's "Nightingale" to Lore Segal's "The Talk in Eliza's Kitchen" and Robert Olen Butler's "The American Couple," these diverse stories are surprising, evocative, and reveal countless dimensions of the human experience.
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