Presents a new, wide-ranging selection of contemporary but structured American verse by almost two hundred poets

Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry In Traditional Form

Literature & Fiction

Jauss, David

Dacey, Philip

History & Criticism

Pearson

Review\n"David Jauss has written nothing less than a contemporary book of the dead." -- Besty Sholl\n"Jauss has taken a cue from the jazz greats he so admires, whose sounds came straight from the hopeful . . . " -- Leslie Ullman\n"Jauss's book of 'night thoughts' is a meditation on mortality . . . transform[ing] the pain of our brevity into art." -- Mark Doty

You Are Not Here

Fleur-de-Lis

In these finely crafted stories, David Jauss depicts the lives of ordinary people who have crossed the border into a new and dark country where what once sustained them no longer exists. A man saws his car in half when his wife and son leave him. Close to the no-hitter that will give him his chance at "The Bigs," a minor league pitcher from the Dominican Republic refuses to throw another pitch. An alcoholic attending his son's funeral discovers in a lie he once told a truth that could destroy or save him. With gentle words and acts of love, a husband succumbs to his latent brutality. A soldier in Vietnam steps on a mine that fails to detonate and enters into a new and baffling kind of war. As the epigraph from Milan Kundera suggests, the secret of life is that "the border beyond which everything loses meaning . . . is not miles away, but a fraction of an inch." With an unerring eye for human frailty, Jauss maps this ever-shifting boundary.

Black Maps (Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction)

United States

University of Massachusetts Press

In a satisfying story or novel, all of the pieces seem to fit together so effortlessly, so seamlessly, that it's easy to find yourself wondering, "How on earth did the author do this?" The answer is simple: He sat alone at his desk, considered an array of options, and made smart, careful choices.
In Alone With All That Could Happen, award-winning author and respected creative writing professor David Jauss addresses overlooked or commonly misunderstood aspects of fiction writing, offering practical information and advice that will help you make smart creative and technical decisions about such topics as:
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<li>writing prose whose syntax and rhythm create a "soundtrack" for the story it tells</li>
<li>choosing the right point of view to create the appropriate degree of "distance" between your characters and the reader</li>
<li>writing valid and convincing epiphanies</li>
<li>harnessing the power of contradiction in the creative process</li>
</ul>
In one thought-provoking essay after another, Jauss sorts through unique fiction-writing conundrums, including how to create those exquisite intersections between truth and fabrication that make all great works of fiction so much more resonant and powerful than fiction that follows the generic "write what you know" approach that's so often preached.

Alone With All That Could Happen: Rethinking Conventional Wisdom about the Craft of Fiction

Writer's Digest Books

Your entrance into one of America's foremost creative writing programs!
Featuring instruction from past and present faculty members of the acclaimed M.F.A. in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, including Mark Doty, Douglas Glover, Robin Hemley, Richard Jackson, Sydney Lea, Bret Lott, Sue William Silverman, David Wojahn, and Xu Xi, Words Overflown By Stars gives you unprecedented access to a top literary education.
This comprehensive resource covers a wide variety of topics, including the creative process, titles, beginnings, voice and style, point of view, novel and short story structure, the role of dreams and fantasy in fiction, the often-blurry borderline between fiction and creative nonfiction, the subgenres of creative nonfiction, music and time in poetry, image patterning, "saying the unsayable," multiculturalism, the art of revision, and much more.
Both provocative and practical, the essays in Words Overflown by Stars distill many of the lessons that have made the graduates of Vermont College of Fine Arts so successful.

Words Overflown By Stars: Creative Writing Instruction And Insight From The Vermont College Mfa Program

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Story Press

The pieces of a satisfying novel or story seem to fit together so effortlessly, so seamlessly, that it's easy to find yourself wondering, "How on earth did the author do this?" The answer is simple: He sat alone at his desk, considered an array of options, and made smart, careful choices. In On Writing Fiction, award-winning author and respected creative writing professor David Jauss offers practical information and advice that will help you make smart creative and technical decisions about such topics as: • Writing prose with syntax and rhythm to create a "soundtrack" for the narrative • Choosing the right point of view to create the appropriate degree of "distance" between your characters and the reader • Harnessing the power of contradiction in the creative process In one thought-provoking essay after another, Jauss sorts through unique fiction-writing conundrums, including how to create those exquisite intersections between truth and fabrication that make all great works of fiction so much more resonant than fiction that follows the "write what you know" approach that's so often used.

On Writing Fiction: Rethinking conventional wisdom about the craft

The unobtrusive technical mastery and almost classical precision of his style would alone be enough to make David Jauss's collection a notable one. But there is a unique depth and resonance in Jauss's work which is the real source of his accomplishment. Like Flaubert, Chekhov, and the jazz musicians who figure as tutelary spirits in his collection, Jauss sees the exercise of style as a form of pilgrimage to the human heart. And he knows the heart in all of its intricacies, misery, and spendor. It is hardly the fashion anymore to label a book as noble - but no other word will suffice. -- David Wojahn

Improvising Rivers (CSU Poetry Series XLVII)

David Jauss

Cleveland State University Poetry Center

Glossolalia: New &amp; Selected Stories celebrate more than 30 years of writing, awards, and honors by David Jauss, whose short stories have been reprinted in such anthologies as Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Awards: Prize Stories, and, twice, in The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, as well as in The Pushcart Book of Short Stories: The Best Stories from the Pushcart Prize. Wally Lamb, author of She's Come Undone and We Are Water, says, "If I were in charge of the seating arrangements, I'd reserve a place for David Jauss in the very first row of contemporary American fiction writers. Glossolalia: New &amp; Selected Stories is why. Each story delivers stunning revelations of deep human truths, and each hitches Jauss's formidable storytelling powers to his very good heart. I'm in awe of this collection."

Glossolalia: New & Selected Stories

Literary

Press 53

Nice People: New & Selected Stories II

David Jauss has been praised for years as one of the world’s greatest authors of short fiction, and his 2013 collection, Glossolalia: New &amp; Selected Stories, provided the proof. Now Jauss offers up Nice People: New &amp; Selected Stories II as a companion collection to continue the celebration of more than thirty years of publishing award-winning short fiction. Jauss’ short stories have been published in numerous magazines and reprinted in Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Awards: Prize Stories, and, twice in The Pushcart Prize:Best of the Small Presses as well as in The Pushcart Book of Short Stories: The Best Stories from the Pushcart Prize. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a James A. Michener/Copernicus Society of America Fellowship, and three fellowships from the Arkansas Arts Council and one from the Minnesota State Arts Board. His collection Black Maps received the Associated Writers and Writing Programs Award for Short Fiction. A professor emeritus at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, he teaches in the low-residency MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

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Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry In Traditional Form

You Are Not Here

Black Maps (Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction)

Alone With All That Could Happen: Rethinking Conventional Wisdom about the Craft of Fiction

Words Overflown By Stars: Creative Writing Instruction And Insight From The Vermont College Mfa Program

On Writing Fiction: Rethinking conventional wisdom about the craft

Improvising Rivers (CSU Poetry Series XLVII)

Glossolalia: New & Selected Stories

Nice People: New & Selected Stories II

Nice People: New & Selected Stories II