thaisa frank

Able Muse Guest Editors, Spotlight Poet Contest & More

Submitted by Alex Pepple on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 01:39.

The next issue of Able Muse will feature a number of guest editors in all areas, and a contest. With that, I’m pleased to invite the submissions on behalf of the guest editors. The pertinent details follow. In all cases, the submission guidelines for Able Muse are online here. The deadline for all submissions indicated below is May 1, 2009.

POETRY

The Enchanted Man

The Enchanted Man

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Henna

Henna

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I will call her Ms. Shari, even though she was married. Still, Ms. Shari is how the head of the department and I spoke of her in a tense unhappy discussion behind closed doors.

Candide, Zadig and Selected Stories

France’s most distinguished man of letters This essential collection from the genius Voltaire includes his masterpiece and best-known work Candide, as well as his novel Zadig and fourteen short stories: “Micromegas,” “The World as It Is,” “Memnon,” “Bababec and the Fakirs,” “History of Scarmentado’s Travels,” “Plato’s Dream,” “Account of the Sickness, Confession, Death, and Apparition of the Jesuit Berthier,” “Story of a Good Brahman,” “Jeannot and Colin,” “An Indian Adventure,” “Ingenuous,” “The One-Eyed Porter,

author: Francois Voltaire
ASIN or ISBN-10: 0451531159
binding: Mass Market Paperback
list price: $4.95 USD
amazon price: $4.95 USD

Finding Your Writer's Voice: A Guide to Creative Fiction

Chosen by Writer's Digest as one of the best writing books published in 1994, this illuminating guide mixes creative inspiration with practical advice about the craft to help writers discover their most powerful writing tool: the voices that are uniquely their own.

author: Thaisa Frank
Dorothy Wall
ASIN or ISBN-10: 0312151284
binding: Paperback
list price: $18.99 USD
amazon price: $17.71 USD

Desire One

author: Thaisa Frank
ASIN or ISBN-10: 0932716156
binding: Paperback
list price: $4.75 USD
amazon price: $4.75

Sleeping in Velvet

A Brief History of Camouflage, Thaisa Frank's critically acclaimed first fullscale collection of stories, established her reputation as one of those writers with a special gift for exploring the dreamlike abyss of distances, discontinuities and attractions across which contemporary relationships are negotiated. "This collection of stories", suggested Small Press Magazine, "brilliantly examines the detachment within intimacy which seems to plague men and women today".

author: Thaisa Frank
ASIN or ISBN-10: 1574230433
binding: Paperback
list price: $16.95 USD
amazon price: $4.95 USD

A Brief History of Camouflage

Fiction. Short Stories. Thaisa Frank writes of lives that brush up against one another, but cannot fuse because of their characters' reluctance to be known, reluctance to be loved. A BRIEF HISTORY OF CAMOUFLAGE traces loss of love, elided empathy, and persistent memory in the cycles of knowing and not knowing one another. "My mother fell asleep right away and an ineffable membrane opened between us. I felt her heart and breath, fueled by mysterious powers, love beyond her knowledge of it." (from "Night Visit"). Frank is also the author of SLEEPING IN VELVET and DESIRE, both available from SPD.

author: Thaisa Frank
ASIN or ISBN-10: 0876858566
binding: Paperback
list price: $14.95 USD
amazon price: $15.95 USD

Thaisa Frank

Thaisa Frank's work is the author of three collections of fiction, including Sleeping in Velvet and A Brief History of Camouflage (both by Black Sparrow Press, 1998 and 1992) and Desire (Kelsey Street Press, 1984). She is the co-author of the non-fiction book, Finding Your Writer's Voice (St.