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Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones pieces together the story of her family and Puerto Rico using a captivating combination of historical facts, poems, maps, and flash essays. Organized around six hurricanes, The Hurricane Book documents the myriad ways in which colonialism has seeped into the lives of Puerto Ricans.

The fourth volume in the immensely popular Field Guide series, this book gives readers unprecedented insight into the techniques of 28 of today's most innovative creators of graphic literature. With original craft essays, corresponding exercises, and full-color examples of their work, each contributor offers reflection and instruction.

Drawing inspiration from a mixed heritage and from history, Jasmine Sawers invents a hybrid folklore for liminal characters who live between the lines and within the creases of race and language, culture and gender, sexuality and ability.

Evidence of V: A Novel in Fragments, Facts, and Fictions is a poignant excavation of familial and national history that remains disturbingly relevant--a harrowing story of exploitation and erasure, and the infinite ways in which girls, past and present, are punished for crimes they didn't commit.

A wide-ranging gathering of 34 brief essays and 66 prose poems by distinguished practitioners, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry is as personal and provocative, accessible and idiosyncratic as the genre itself. The essayists discuss their craft, influences, and experiences in this craft guide.

With its unprecedented gathering of 25 brief essays by experts in the field, this craft guide meets the growing need for a concise yet creative exploration of the re-emerging genre popularly known as flash fiction. This book is a must for anyone in the field of short fiction who teaches, writes, and is interested in its genesis and practice.

This study of eight hybrid genres--lyric essay, epistolary, poetic memoir, prose poetry, performative, short-form nonfiction, flash fiction, and pictures made of words--showcases how cross-genre works blend features from multiple literary parents to create new entities.

The novellas in this collection are compact and specific, yet whole and universal, using the flexibility of the novella-in-flash genre to offer a polyphony of setting and emotion. Accompanying each novella-in-flash is a craft essay by the author exploring the form's power, uses, and unique characteristics.

The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction features 26 eminent writers, editors, and teachers offering expert analysis, focused exercises, and helpful examples of what make the brief essay form such a perfect medium for experimentation, insight, and illumination.

In Ghostographs, brief, crystalline stories combine with vintage photographs to illuminate the hidden terrain of childhood and the pain of growing up, all in one small town at the edge of an abyss where the narrator comes of age among family, friends, and phantoms.

An uncanny and imaginative autobiography of otherness, Monster Portraits offers the fictional record of a writer in the realms of the fantastic shot through with the memories of a pair of Somali-American children growing up in the 1980s.

Nimbly written and sympathetically rendered, Audubon's Sparrow is an enchanting blend of research and imagination--an indelible portrait of an American woman--Lucy Bakewell Audubon--in need of rediscovery.