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"A Definitive Guide to the Twin Cities" is a creative guide to the Twin Cities through poetry and prose. See the Twin Cities through the eyes of 38 of its finest writers--this is the only guide that steers you on an emotional as well as a physical level through the streets and alleys of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota.
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The idea for this book was to enable the reader to get a true vision of the Minneapolis and St. Paul metro area using all the senses. In its purest form the reader could pull this guide out of their pocket and read "skol liquors" while standing in the actual skol liquor parking lot; or recite "passing through the gills of the world" while walking along the Mississippi river just off the West Bank of the University of Minnesota campus We've even provided maps to help you on you way. In putting the pieces together, however, the true magic of the book is that it stands up even if your in a one room apartment in Houston, TX. This is in due to the talented community of local writers and the high quality of their work. For eight years Spout Press has published the finest in contemporary experimental writing and has garnered a national following with its quarterly journal. "A Definitive Guide to the Twin Cities" is our debut book and it combines the freshness of the journal with our new commitment to publishing on a larger scale. It is our mission to create a community through words--a collage of beliefs and emotions that depict a truer vision of our culture.
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"Mercy" by Jennifer Willoughby: At the corner of University and Prior, a car raked the median and smashed into a semi hauling lumber up from Marathon. The red hood of the German car seesawed under the loaded flatbed and stopped the windshield shattered outward. The headlights stayed on, shining under the grid of the truck and out the other side, hazy beams pollinating the east corner of the intersection.
The truck driver was originally from California. He was on his feet in the street, shrieking. The woman crawled out the window of her car. "I'm all right," she said. He circled her, then touched her shoulder. When he touched her, he saw himself naked at the side of the road, sixty miles out of Nogales. His rig was in the ditch, twisted into a new number. Johnny Cash still swirling out of the cab--I went out a wandering with a Bible and a gun. A Mexican girl came over the railroad tracks and gave him an orange. He peeled it, put the bright sections carefully in his mouth. He thought, this miracle child sees me. She sees my suffering in black and white. He kneeled and stroked her hair with sticky fingers. He thought, this miracle child needs me.
The woman looked at him. "Are you okay," she asked. The regulars at the Ace Box Bar and the punks from the fast food parking lots swarmed around them. A traffic cop shouted into his radio. You bet we need some fucking backup, Charlie! The car's coiled under this bitch like a crushed beer can! Somebody laughed and started clapping. An old guy shook the truckdriver's hand and kissed the woman's thin flushed cheek. A white boy opened a paper bag and passed out pilfered cartons of Newports. Everywhere was talk and laughter, the story of the crash growing bigger and more heroic in the purple, slick street. The bartender passed around a bottle of Yukon Jack. The woman and driver held tight to each other's arms and the sense of celebration grew. Some people crept around behind the semi and picked up pieces of laminate and broken glass. Secretly, they put the pieces in their pockets, like they were rabbits' feet or diamonds...
"passing through the gills of the world," by Christine
Sikorski:
the river rocks
between its banks
the river threads
past a woman who stands
on the west bank watching
only the river
the pink mouth of a fish opens
to the river
to the swirl of froth
on the surface of the river
the fish travels slowly downstream
pink mouth opening closing
opening to the swirl of froth
the woman walks along the west bank
watching the fish
slide slowly downstream
mouth opening closing
the woman walks upstream
the trees are green
the rocks along the bank
white and scattered with trash
the woman walks
the fish drifts
the river never once changes
the river never once stays the same
all along the river
the gray air makes
the green trees greener
the woman is a tree walking
the fish is a river standing
the woman opens
her pink mouth
to drink the froth
of the gray sky
the fish is a green tree
the woman is a white rock
on the west bank
of the gray river
the green woman
and the pink fish
are the two banks
of the white river
and the one perfect world
scattered with trash
slides on
slides on
through the perfect gray
of the sky
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- PublisherSpout Press
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0965944301
- ISBN 13 9780965944304
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages104
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