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02979aam a2200457 i 4500 001 7B7914D4840911E89478B85797128E48 003 SILO 005 20180710010618 008 180320t20182018mou 000 j eng c 010 $a 2017045554 020 $a 1943491135 020 $a 9781943491131 035 $a (OCoLC)1028906027 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d IMR $d OCLCO $d CKE $d BDX $d CZA $d WZW $d OCLCF $d OSU $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 100 1 $a Ramspeck, Doug, $d 1953- $e author. 240 10 $a Short stories. $k Selections 245 14 $a The owl that carries us away : $b stories / $c Doug Ramspeck. 264 1 $a Kansas City, MO : $b BkMk Press, University of Missouri-Kansas City, $c [2018] 300 $a 181 pages ; $c 22 cm 505 0 $a Contents : Foreword -- The owl that carries us away -- The visible world -- Omphalotus Olearius -- Stone garden -- Bonjour Tristeese -- Messenger -- The second coming -- Spring show -- Little dancer aged fourteen -- Water tower -- Crow death -- Slippery Creek -- Ocho Rios -- The world we know -- Old places -- Folklore -- Five grackles -- Old man -- Bedtime story -- Into the woods -- The green bridge -- The old worlds -- Dog memories -- Confessions of a cloud -- Three crows -- Opuntia -- Baobab -- Jamaican snow -- Crow. 520 $a "One is tempted, in describing Doug Ramspeck's new collection, to use the word 'unflinching' - and indeed, these fictions tackle crises that might tempt many to avert their gaze: dead, missing or decamped fathers, tragic accidents, romantic disappointment, childhood trauma, awkward aftermaths of all kinds. The problem is that 'unflinching' gives the viewer, or the writer, special credit for not looking away. But flinching is for those who have a choice, and the characters in these spare, close-to-the-bone stories do not. What Ramspeck succeeds in here is to show us, in poignant, lyrical, but never fussy prose, what everyday fortitude looks like, what it's like to look hardship straight in its eye and keep pressing on. These are flawed, sympathetic, fully human characters, and this is a sad, dark, terrific book." -- back cover. 650 0 $a Fathers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Tragedy $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Drug addiction $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Death $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Children $v Fiction. 650 4 $a FICTION / Short Stories (single author). 650 4 $a FICTION / Small Town & Rural. 650 7 $a Children. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00854835 650 7 $a Death. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00888613 650 7 $a Drug addiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01430217 650 7 $a Fathers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00921865 650 7 $a Tragedy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01154355 655 7 $a Short stories. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Short stories. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726740 941 $a 2 952 $l KAPF566 $d 20230331013552.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20190212014734.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7B7914D4840911E89478B85797128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search