Anthropocene
Published on 30. March 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
150 pages
978-1-716-13795-2 (ISBN)
Description
"Readers searching for the artful language of Fitzgerald and the cultural relevance of Achebe in a volume that speaks directly to global citizens of the twenty-first century have finally found their lost ark in Anthropocene. It's not difficult to find writers today who explore problematic issues within our brave new world of cultural collisions, gender politics and new-look human subjugation. What is incredibly rare, however, is to find a writer willing to criticize contemporary social ills with both empathic concern and vehement distaste-as Gessie does-while remaining faithful to the craft of literary fiction. There's no dark corner he won't articulately explore in this astonishing collection of stories. Readers will wrestle with Gessie's thinly veiled accusations of our own complicity with social injustice and, yet, they will also laugh along with his wide array of marginalized, irreverent voices. Anthropocene is, at once, a buoyant, hilarious and deeply disturbing experience."
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Language
English
Place of publication
Morrisville
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
228 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-716-13795-2 (9781716137952)
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Dean Gessie is an author and poet who has won dozens of international awards and prizes. Among other honors, Dean won the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award in England, the Allingham Arts Festival Poetry Competition in Ireland, the Samuel Washington Allen Poetry Prize in Massachusetts, the COP26 Poetry Competition in Scotland, the UN-aligned Poetry Contest in Finland, a Creators of Justice Literary Award [Fiction Category] from the International Human Rights Art Festival in New York and the Indigo Open Poetry Prize in England. Also in England, he was one of twenty international poets included in the Poetry Archive NOW! World View 2022 Video Anthology. Elsewhere, Dean won the Frank O'Hara Poetry Prize in Massachusetts, the Enizagam Poetry Contest in California, the Ageless Authors Poetry Contest in Texas, the Spoon River Review Editors' Prize in Illinois and the Southern Shakespeare Company Sonnet Contest in Florida. In addition, Dean was included twice in The 64 Best Poets by Black Mountain Press in North Carolina and his collection of award-winning short stories - called Anthropocene - won an Eyelands Book Award in Greece, the Uncollected Press Prize in Maryland and the Seven Hills Literary Contest in Florida. Dean's latest release - goat song with Uncollected Press - also won the Seven Hills Literary Contest for best international poetry collection since 2020.