A Magic Book (Alberta Prize) - Softcover

Steensen, Sasha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0974090948 ISBN 13: 9780974090948

Publisher: University Press of New England, 2004

Synopsis

An alternative history, offering alternative myths, of the founding of the United States of America. Where religion must be erased and where industry is a given, magic steps in with its hoaxes and promises. In A Magic Book, Sasha Steensen deftly inscribes, using treatise, factoid, rhyme, and timeline, the choices we have made, culturally, against a belief in invisibility: What we have not seen, must not be, "never harm nor spell nor charm."

About this title

About the Author

Sasha Steensen is a coeditor of the journal Kiosk: A Journal of Poetry, Poetics and Experimental Prose and a founder and cocurator of the Buffalo reading series, Another. She is the author of the chapbook Correspondence, a collaboration with Gordon Hadfield, forthcoming from Handwritten Press. She holds a BA in History and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is currently completing a PhD in the Poetics Program at Suny Buffalo.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of New England
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0974090948
• ISBN 13: 9780974090948
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80