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The Persistence

The Persistence


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In The Persistence, the force beneath creation surfaces in ten linked stories that twist through numerous realities. Characters return or depart across a boundary that barely holds back possibilities for the monstrous. In the patch of feral woods in which these stories are set, the covering over the generative void is exceptionally thin, allowing the poetry of being to appear in bizarre ways. Each story in The Persistence invents its own logic, adapting the old need for enchantment to a modern world of fragmentation and grotesque flowering.

About the Author :
John Colburn is the author of four previous books, most recently unabandonment (Spuyten Duyvil, 2021). He lives in St. Paul, MN and is one of the publishers/editors in the Spout Press collective.

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The ten stories in The Persistence ask multiple questions: What is real and what is unreal? Are the two interchangeable? How does one live between realities? How do we survive the strangeness and mystery of the forest and the demons loose within it? Are we animal, human, or both? Like fairy tales of old, these stories feature magic, enchantment, and fanciful beings, yet John Colburn makes each story intrinsically his own. Just as we're pulled into the darkest, cruelest aspects of the human condition, we are flipped back again into the light, light and dark being paid equal attention. The beauty of the language is one reason for the light, moments of insight and salvation another. Each story features a dark and dangerous forest-the Singing Wood-on the periphery of events or forming the heart of them. Most stories include dreams, nightmares, and a larger world reeling with death and destruction. They include visions and ghosts and narrators. They sing. They dance. They remember.--Mary Rockcastle


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9798998905506
  • Publisher: What Books Press
  • Publisher Imprint: What Books Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 168
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 286 gr
  • ISBN-10: 8998905507
  • Publisher Date: 07 Oct 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
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  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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