Stories by Martha Ronk
American Reader Series
Glass Grapes and Other Stories is the first full-length collection of short stories by distinguished American poet, Martha Ronk. Martha Ronk writes with grace, beauty, syntactical rigor, and the same attention to language as our most accomplished poetry. Glass Grapes is divided into three sections: the first has a similar narrator throughout, albeit at different times in her obsessive life; the second introduces different narrators many of whom are collectors; and part three focuses on the dissolution of narrative—not altogether, but in part and in ways that are occasionally comic or at least wry. Additionally, Ronk’s characters are obsessive, and no one is as skilled at laying bare the inner-workings of an obsessive mind as Ronk. Part of the reason for her success is that her language is so precise and her sentences so deft that the reader has no choice but to follow along until Ronk decides to release them. The result is a trip through the psyche of an acutely aware and fiercely intelligent mind.
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Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-934414-13-2
Price: $14.00
Publishing Date: September 2008
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