This Impossible Vertical World
Published on 7. April 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
162 pages
978-1-64603-699-8 (ISBN)
Description
In the stories of This Impossible Vertical World, characters struggle to hold fast to other lives-- human and animal-- as the familiar deserts them. In threatened geographies, from New Mexico and Alaska to Utah and Minnesota, these hard-tested people discover a bestiary of relations: dogs, coyotes, rattlers, whales, swans, wolves, bears, loons, and turtles. This is an ark of stories, its passengers hoping events flooding their lives will recede on a more habitable vertical world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Raleigh
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
227 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64603-699-8 (9781646036998)
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Stephen Pett is author of Sirens, a novel, and Pulpit of Bones, poetry. His short stories have appeared in many venues, including, Ecotone Cimarron Review, Missouri Review, North American Review, Southern Humanities Review, The Sun, and, Witness. He co-founded and was Coordinator for Iowa State University's MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment and founded the journal Flyway. He lives half the year in Santa Fe and half alongside the Boundary Waters Wilderness in Minnesota.