Trail of Stones - Softcover
Enchanting Gwen Strauss poetry accompanied by enchanting illustrations by Anthony Browne.
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About the Author:
Gwen Strauss is the author of several books for young readers, including Ruth and the Green Book and The Night Shimmy with illustrations by Anthony Browne. Strauss' poems, short stories and essays have appeared in numerous publications including The New Republic, London Sunday Times, New England Review, Kenyon Review, Tampa Review and Antioch Review. She is the assistant director at the Brown Foundation Fellowship Program at the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France, an artist residency program run by the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. She lives in Southern France with her three children.
From Publishers Weekly:
Strauss explores "the theme of metamorphosis in fairy tales" in this stunning collection of 12 dramatic monologues by familiar fairy tale characters at a moment of crisis or confrontation. The voices in these poems are both strong and complex, and the themes the characters explore--fear, loneliness, shame, jealousy--are as stark as Browne's evocative black-and-white illustrations that seem to reveal the characters' souls. We see Hansel and Gretel's father seated underneath Edvard Munch's famous woodcut, telling how the pebbles he gave his son "rattle in his dreams." We hear the wolf imagining how Red Riding Hood "will have the youngest skin / he has ever touched, her fingers unfurling / like fiddle heads in spring." Like Anne Sexton's "Cinderella," Strauss's poems are best suited to an adult audience, but they offer readers new wine in old bottles, a fresh view of familiar territory in language that has depth and power. Ages 12-up.
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- PublisherAlfred A. Knopf
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 086203437X
- ISBN 13 9780862034375
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages44
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