Blue
Land is
a collection of CD’s
stories, by Polyho
Press.
“...exceptionally
well-wrought stories...
Wendell Berry might envy Collins’ achievement..the
star of this altogether brilliant
collection is ‘Sin Verquenza,’ which
begins irresistibly: ‘A
coke head and a junkie are two
different things.’ ”
— Ray Olson
Booklist
“CD Collins has
the voice of a natural born storyteller. The
stories in this collection have
the compressed beauty of poetry
and the richness of novels. Original
and unforgettable.”
— Stephen
McCauley
Boston Globe columnist
and
author, The Object of My Affection and Alternatives
to Sex
“In this gripping
collection of stories it's
as if we meet the descendants
of the tenant farmers documented
so famously by James Agee and
Walker Evans. But while treating
her people with dignity and empathy,
CD Collins also claims her rights
as an insider. Beautifully crafted, Blue
Land is both heartbreaking
and hilarious.”
— Alexandra
Marshall
author of five novels, including Gus in Bronze
and
The Court of Common Pleas
“C.
D. Collins tunes her ear to the
speech rhythms of her native
Kentucky and her heart
to the covert joys and enduring
sorrows of her characters in
Blue Land. ‘I get the picture.
First despair then tunnels of
light,’ says the burn-scarred
narrator of ‘Jesus and
the Sineaters,’ and these
words evoke the power of this
debut collection: Collins plumbs
a fiery, unforgettable vein.”
— Jennifer
Barber
author of Rigging the Wind
“Blue
Land is full of wild and
unforgettable stories whose
first lines promise everything
and whose endings bring that
promise home with grace and
heart.”
— Pamela
Painter
author of the story collections
Getting to Know
the Weather and The
Long and Short of It
Self-Portrait With
Severed Head is CD’s new collection
of poetry.
Buy online
now.
“Vastly original,
fresh, potent and charged … ”
— Pam
Bernard
author, Across the Dark
“Carefully
crafted, emotionally evocative,
arrestingly clear… it
stirs me. I had difficulty putting
it down.”
— Sam
Cornish
Boston Poet Laureate
“A winner!”
— Mike Basinski
Poetry/Rare
Books Collection, University
Libraries
