All I Want to Do is Live: A Collection of Creative Nonfiction - Softcover

Trace Ramsey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1939899281 ISBN 13: 9781939899286

Publisher: Pioneers Press, 2017

Synopsis

Trace Ramsey s All I Want to Do is Live personalizes common themes of survival, depression, and life in America at a time of division and upheaval. In this collection of short stories, essays, and poetry, Ramsey examines his family history and shows us how darkness can trickle through generations. He looks to people like his grandparents and his partner for hope and works to move beyond abuse and mental illness to find what is worth passing on to his children. In a unique voice of clean, deliberate prose, he relays stories about the damage of the past and recovery in the present that is both brutal and achingly pretty. As the personal often sheds light on the universal, Trace's memories of his childhood and the scenes from his life today also give us the story of our time, our country, and a people longing to find substance, freedom, and meaning.

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About the Author

Trace Ramsey is a recipient of the 2016 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize from the North Carolina Literary Review, the 2015 Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artists Award in Literature, and was a 2015 contributor in non-fiction at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Trace s recent publications include essays in At Length Magazine, Hippocampus Magazine, conc s and I Don t Know How to Help You, a compilation zine from Pioneers Press. In 2014, Trace s first book an anthology of the zine Quitter (Quitter: Good Luck Not Dying) was published by Pioneers Press. In December 2014, Trace received a certificate in documentary arts in nonfiction writing from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pioneers Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1939899281
• ISBN 13: 9781939899286
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216