Virginia Dare: Stories 1976-1981 - Softcover

Dawson, Fielding

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0876856172 ISBN 13: 9780876856178

Publisher: Black Sparrow Press, 1985

Synopsis

Breaking away from his typical first person autobiographical narration, Virginia Dare is the beginning of a new stage in Fielding Dawson s career; a stage in which he employs third person [narration], and open endings through transitions. In his introduction Dawson explains that both the random topics of his stories and the unrelated characters make this collection a truer reflection of the human order, because in reality loose ends are not always tied up.

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Additionally, Virginia Dare is an enthralling addition to any collection of contemporary writing, particularly for those who also enjoy the writing of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, Dawson s fellow and better-known beat generation writers.

About this title

About the Author:

Fielding Dawson's fiction, essays and art/literary criticism appeared in newspapers, magazines and anthologies in the U.S. and abroad for over thirty years. During his lifetime he published 23 books--stories, novels, memoirs and poems. He attended Black Mountain College from 1949 to 1953, where he studied with such writers and artists as Charles Olson and Franz Kline. In 1956 he moved to New York City, continuing to write and create paintings, drawings and collages. In 1984 he began to teach writing workshops in U.S. prisons, and later also worked with at-risk teenagers in alternative high schools. Fielding was chairman of the PEN Prison Writing Committee and director of the PEN Prison Writing Workshop Program. His literary archives are held by the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut at Storrs.

About this edition

• Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0876856172
• ISBN 13: 9780876856178
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172