Bleachers
Fifty-Four Linked Fictions
Published on 18. April 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
186 pages
978-1-950413-05-8 (ISBN)
Description
In Bleachers, the debut short fiction collection by award-winning poet Joseph Mills, fifty-four stories take place during two youth soccer games, capturing the thoughts, concerns, realizations, and perspectives of the parents on the sidelines and in the stands. As these spectators watch (or don’t watch) the players on the field, their narratives interweave to form a portrait of community and of parenting—always unpredictable, often complicated, and rarely what it seems. From A to Z ("Aging" to "Zidane"), Bleachers can be read as a primer on parenting and family, as well as a paean to sports. If, as Dr. King said, Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in America, then Saturday morning may be the most integrated as families gather to experience the victories and losses, both great and small, of the game that brings them together, "forming, then breaking apart, then reforming . . . . temporarily cohering" as a team.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
279 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-950413-05-8 (9781950413058)
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A professor at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Joseph Mills holds an endowed chair, the Susan Burress Wall Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities. He has published seven collections of poetry with Press 53. His book This Miraculous Turning was awarded the 2015 Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry, and his collection Angels, Thieves, and Winemakers was called "a must have for wine lovers" by the Washington Post. His poetry has been featured several times on Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac and in former U.S. poet laureate Ted Kooser's nationally syndicated newspaper column "American Life in Poetry." In addition to his volumes of poetry, he has researched and written two editions of A Guide to North Carolina's Wineries with his wife, Danielle Tarmey. He also has edited a collection of film criticism, A Century of the Marx Brothers. He has degrees in literature from the University of Chicago, the University of New Mexico, and the University of California, Davis.