Circles and Circles of Sorrow
As “A Voice from Heaven” in The Good Book: Writers Reflect on Favorite Bible Passages, Andrew Blauner, ed. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015)
As “Travel Dust and the Magical Tracks of Zora Neale Hurston” in Zora Magazine, January 2016
The prayer “A New Sky”
As “Prayer before Dying” in PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers, issue 19
Feetfirst
As “Without Her” in the New York Times Magazine, April 23, 2015
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EDWIDGE DANTICAT is the author of numerous books, including Claire of the Sea Light, a New York Times Notable Book of 2013; Brother, I’m Dying, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner and a National Book Award finalist; Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner; and The Dew Breaker, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the inaugural Story Prize. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she has been published in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and elsewhere.
This book is made possible through a partnership with the College of Saint Benedict, and honors the legacy of S. Mariella Gable, a distinguished teacher at the College.
Previous titles in this series include:
Loverboy by Victoria Redel
The House on Eccles Road by Judith Kitchen
One Vacant Chair by Joe Coomer
The Weatherman by Clint McCown
Collected Poems by Jane Kenyon
Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship by Nuruddin Farah:
Sweet and Sour Milk
Sardines
Close Sesame
Duende by Tracy K. Smith
All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems by Linda Gregg The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song by Ellen Bryant Voigt
How to Escape from a Leper Colony by Tiphanie Yanique
One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina
The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism by Deborah Baker
On Sal Mal Lane by Ru Freeman
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
Cinder: New and Selected Poems by Susan Stewart
Support for this series has been provided by the Manitou Fund as part of the Warner Reading Program.
The text of The Art of Death is set in Warnock Pro, a typeface designed by Robert Slimbach for Adobe Systems in 2000. Book design by Wendy Holdman. Composition by Bookmobile Design & Digital Publisher Services, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Manufactured by Versa Press on acid-free, 30 percent postconsumer wastepaper.
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