{"id":15210,"date":"2020-12-03T15:49:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T20:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=15210"},"modified":"2024-11-14T12:33:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T17:33:50","slug":"the-art-of-fiction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/the-art-of-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

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paper \u2022 130 pages \u2022 16.95
\nISBN-13: 978-1-945588-72-3
\nPub Date: February 15, 2021<\/p>\n

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The Art of Fiction<\/em><\/h1>\n

Kevin Prufer<\/h2>\n

Editor’s Pick for Library Journal<\/em><\/a><\/h5>\n
Featured in Library Journal<\/em>‘s “Books and Authors To Know: Poetry Titles To Watch 2021”<\/a><\/h5>\n

In this his eighth collection of poetry (and fifth with Four Way Books), Prufer\u2019s career-spanning talent for estranging the familiar\u2014and also for recording the unthinkable with eerie directness\u2014recurs, enhanced and transformed by the collection\u2019s meta-level attention to the role of fiction in our civic lives. Prufer describes, often through personae, a near future, tracing there the political gambit of Fake News and the role of the imagination in our self-understanding (whether it\u2019s cogent or delusional). Via both satire and direct address (to the point of reader-squeamishness), Prufer aims to understand the ugly-casual atmosphere of our often racialized, pervasive distrust. The Art of Fiction<\/em> fundamentally understands that fictions are deployed to divide us, and they work: they get under our skin. Prufer powerfully explores the roles of imagination and art in how we explain ourselves to ourselves.<\/p>\n

“And He Will Guide My Craft”\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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that is not a burning building it is a bonfire on the beach
\nand those are not soldiers they are fishermen
\nI am rowing us closer you will see
\nhow those are not guns but fishing poles
\na star is not a fighter plane
\nan island is not an aircraft carrier
\nand can you see the fishermen cooking their catch in the fire
\nI am rowing us closer
\ndo you hear their laughter on the wind
\nyes it sounds like people crying but it is not
\ndo you hear the fire popping yes it sounds like pistols
\ntaking prisoners to the afterlife but it is not
\nI have always been with you
\nthese are my hands rowing your boat
\nwe shouldn\u2019t be on open water when the sun rises
\nwe will dock here this is a peaceful island
\nyou can rest you can eat
\nthat is not smoke it is mist wrapping the cliffs
\nwhile the fishermen tend their fires
\nthose are not bodies they are people sleeping
\nwe will leave our boat behind when I say run
\nwe will run as fast as we can across the sand
\ndon\u2019t look back you will disappear into the woods
\nand I will disappear into your mind<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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