Blue Land,
a collection of CD’s stories,
will be published in
2008 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
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