small pieces
Published on 13. June 2023
70 pages
978-1-62897-477-5 (ISBN)
Description
small pieces is a collaboration between novelist, Micheline Aharonian Marcom, and writer and visual artist Fowzia Karimi, pairing Marcom's short stories, or ?miniatures? as Marcom calls them?prose pieces of one page or less?with watercolors done by Karimi. The work is a conversation between two artists in text and image, side by side.
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Persons
Micheline Aharonian Marcom is the author of seven novels, including a trilogy of books about the Armenian genocide and its aftermath in the 20th century. She has received fellowships and awards from the Lannan Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, and the US Artists' Foundation. She was a 2022 finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Fowzia Karimi has a background in Visual Arts and Biology. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College, California. Her work explores the correspondence on the page between the written and the visual arts. She is a recipient of The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards (2011). She is the author of Above Us the Milky Way (Deep Vellum, 2020). She lives in Texas.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- 0. The Devotional Life
- 1. On Writing
- 2. In Winter, Again
- 3. Bottles (4), Hard Plastics (19), Flip-Flops (2), Plastic Bags (25), Drinking Cups (115), String Tied Up in a Nylon Sack (3.26kg)
- 4. The Problem with Dogs
- 5. Fado, November 2009
- 6. Both Beautiful and Strange
- 7. Signs
- 8. The Leopard Shark
- 9. There Are So Many
- 10. I Would Be Satisfied
- 11. Beauty
- 12. Taken into Consideration
- 13. Entertainment
- 14. Time Apart
- 15. Thus Far
- 16. The Oracle
- 17. Misericordia Is a Virtue Provided It Is Not Mere Passive Sentiment or Sentimentality
- 18. Two Things Put Together in the Imagination of the Artist Afterward
- 19. In Attendance
- 20. Old Man Eyes
- 21. Presently
- 22. Upon Being Asked What Is Love
- 23. The Miracle of Photosynthesis and Its Waste Product
- 24. Wallace Stevens & the News
- 25. The Reader
- 26. Dialogos
- Back Cover
