Precise Machine - Softcover

Barone, Dennis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0974450375 ISBN 13: 9780974450377

Publisher: Quale Press, 2005

Synopsis

Precise Machine is a collection of poetic fictions that swell with simultaneous dimensions. The pieces take us around the globe and through history in an epic of moments large and small: a bike's flat tire, a teenage comeuppance, an Italian city destroyed by plague. The prose seduces and derails, then ensnares again. Barone invites us at once to inhabit his stories and retreat to the periphery to query how experience itself is recorded, catalogued and remembered. Infused not with certitude but with the far more human condition of ambivalence, these fictions are parables that do not patronize.

About this title

About the Author

Dennis Barone's work has appeared in the Chicago Review, The Prose Poem: An International Journal, and Quarter After Eight among others. Barone has edited numerous collections and published several books of fiction, including Temple of the Rat and Echoes. In 1992 he held the Thomas Jefferson Chair, a distinguished lecturing award in the Netherlands. He currently teaches at St. Joseph's College in Connecticut. Quale Press has published several works of his: North Arrow, Precise Machine, Walking Backwards and The Disguise of Events.

Edition details

• Publisher: Quale Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0974450375
• ISBN 13: 9780974450377
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 116