About the Book
From the "Introduction to PP/FF" by Peter Conners: "PP/FF is meant as a label that locates the territory of prose poetry and flash fiction by symbol rather than by language prejudiced by old genre baggage. PP/FF is prose poetry and flash fiction balanced on a makeshift teeter-totter that never lands. PP/FF is a symbol of a vital and important literary form that is constantly in flux, appropriating, moving and growing. Perhaps the writers in this anthology will be thought of as PP/FF writers. Perhaps poets, fiction writers, or followers of Orpheus. I have no interest in creating new confinements. Genre is easier to sell, to teach, to quantify and review, but what does it have to do with creating new art?"
About the Author :
Editor Peter Conners is the founding co-editor of the online literary journal, "Double Room: A Journal of Prose Poetry & Flash Fiction." A collection of his poetry, "Of Whiskey and Winter," was published by White Pine Press in 2007. Two previous collections of his poetry and prose, "While in the World" and "The Names of Winter," were published by FootHills Publishing. Conners works as marketing director/associate editor for the poetry publisher BOA Editions. He lives with his wife and two sons in Rochester, New York.
Contributors include: Kim Addonizio, Kazim Ali, Dimitri Anastasopoulos, Kenneth Bernard, Eula Biss, Nickole Brown, Brian Clements, Peter Conners, Stuart Dybek, Lydia Davis, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Jamey Dunham, Brian Evenson, Raymond Federman, Sherrie Flick, Geoffrey Gatza, Johannes Goransson, Noah Eli Gordon, Arielle Greenberg, Joanna Howard, Laird Hunt, Harold Jaffe, Brian Johnson, Kent Johnson, Sally Keith, Christopher Kennedy, Christine Boyka Kluge, Gerry LaFemina, Tony Leuzzi, George Looney, Gary Lutz, Peter Markus, Cris Mazza, Kathleen McGookey, Joyelle McSweeney, Christina Milletti, Ander Monson, Kirk Nesset, Daniel Nester, Benjamin Paloff, Ethan Paquin, Jeff Parker, Aimee Parkison, Ted Pelton, Pedro Ponce, Stephen Ratcliffe, Elizabeth Robinson, Martha Ronk, Morgan Lucas Schuldt, Daryl Scroggins, Nina Shope, Eleni Sikelianos, Ed Taylor, Anthony Tognazzini, Alison Townsend, Jessica Treat, Mark Tursi, G.C. Waldrep, Thom Ward, Derek White, and Diane Williams.
Review :
"It's a compendium of fascinating and provocative prose poetry and flash fiction. May the blurry 'teeter-totter' continue its fascinating movement." --Pamelyn Castro, FlashFictionBlog
