Glass Grapes

*Glass Grapes and Other Stories *is the first full-length collection of short stories by distinguished poet and fiction writer Martha Ronk. Ronk s work has garnered critical accolades and numerous awards, including, most recently, a 2005 PEN USA Award in poetry, a 2007 NEA Fellowship, and a 2007 National Poetry Series Award. *Glass Grapes *is a collection of short, experimental stories, usually dominated by an object imbued with fetishistic qualities by an obsessive, self-involved narrator. The language of these stories is repetitive, provocative, imagistic, occasionally comic, and unnerving. Ronk s fiction moves with the same grace, beauty, and attention to language as her most accomplished poetry.

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