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Firesticks

A Collection of Stories
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"There was the darkness of a dream again. And in that darkness, the burning firesticks the men used to carry from the hold Keetowah fire to light the smaller fires in the cabins. It has been a yearly celebration. Light of darkness. New life from ashes...But now we had lost our ceremonies." So dreams Turle in the novella that moves through the shorter prose pieces that make up this collection. Incorporating elements of fiction, nonfiction, drama and poetry, Diane Glancy's stories are lyrical yet down to earth, often tough and gritty. Experimental, sometimes surreal in form, they nevertheless concern people who are very real - a colour-blind young boy who watches planes in flight and imagines colour; a shy stamp collector who speculates that he and his friend, like the stamps, could go anywhere via the US Post Office; an old woman who dies in the cold landscape of her inner life but retains her vision; a cynical woman reluctant to take risks with yet another travelling man. In spite of life's hard realities, "Firesticks" is filled with humour and hope and a stitching together of cultures, as the crossblood characters search for their identities. The stories are unified by the theme of transformation through flight, by means of planes and aviators, birds, postage stamps, balloons, shooting stars, the constellations and the sky itself. Ultimately, Glancy's stories, or firesticks, are like prayers offered up to heavan, and the words themselves become not a way to separate, but a way to speak things into existence.

Author Biography:

Diane Glancy is Professor of English at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota. She has received the Cherokee Medal of Honor from the Cherokee Honor Society. She is also an award-winning author of poetry, short stories, and plays. Her works include War Cries, a collection of plays, and Firesticks and The Voice That Was in Travel, both short story collections published by the University of Oklahoma Press. Her collection of essays, Claiming Breath, won the North American Indian Prose Award and an American Book Award.
Release date Australia
March 30th, 1993
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Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Pages
148
Dimensions
127x190x18
ISBN-13
9780806124902
Product ID
7480638

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