Stardust and Fate: The Blueroad Reader (Blueroad Readers) - Softcover
Stardust and Fate: The Blueroad Reader is the first volume in a collected series of new writing and art from the road, featuring the works of nearly four dozen established and emerging writers, poets, and printmakers from North America.
The stories, essays, and poems in Stardust and Fate tour some of many routes -- seen and otherwise -- running through people's lives, in real and imagined journeys, literal and figurative, past and present. Pieces include fiction, literary journalism, verse, and memoir: offbeat, quirky, surprising, deep.
Handsomely printed and illustrated with original wood engravings, the collection explores some of the intersections and side roads of landscape, history, people, places, curiosity, wanderlust, memory, moment, chance, and change.
Neither travelogue nor guidebook, Stardust and Fate instead features pieces traversing a range of personal and political territories, where motion drives the narrative and people find themselves facing scenes sometimes unsettled, yet often sublime. In part tribute to William Least Heat Moon's Blue Highways -- where, as he noted, the back roads on the old gas station maps were blue -- these stories and poems seek the unknown while celebrating a quiet restlessness running through us all.
The stories, essays, and poems in Stardust and Fate tour some of many routes -- seen and otherwise -- running through people's lives, in real and imagined journeys, literal and figurative, past and present. Pieces include fiction, literary journalism, verse, and memoir: offbeat, quirky, surprising, deep.
Handsomely printed and illustrated with original wood engravings, the collection explores some of the intersections and side roads of landscape, history, people, places, curiosity, wanderlust, memory, moment, chance, and change.
Neither travelogue nor guidebook, Stardust and Fate instead features pieces traversing a range of personal and political territories, where motion drives the narrative and people find themselves facing scenes sometimes unsettled, yet often sublime. In part tribute to William Least Heat Moon's Blue Highways -- where, as he noted, the back roads on the old gas station maps were blue -- these stories and poems seek the unknown while celebrating a quiet restlessness running through us all.
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A collection of new writing from the road, Stardust and Fate: The Blueroad Reader features the work of 38 short story writers, essayists, and poets, including Freya Manfred, Robert Bly, Bill Holm, John Calvin Rezmerski, Ron Gower, Nancy Paddock, Richard Robbins, Thomas R. Smith, Candace Black, Joseph Hutchison, Joyce Sutphen, Roger Sheffer, Mark Dewey, Carol Barrett, Ed Higgins, Terry Davis, Bruce Benidt, Joe Paddock, Ann Rosenquist Fee, James P. Lenfestey, Suzanne L. Bunkers, Nick Healy, Graeme McRanor, James Silas Rogers, Rachael Hanel, Ed Micus, Wendy Fernstrum, Pop Wagner, Joe Tougas, Philip Bryant, Lorna Rafness, Nate LeBoutillier, Scott King, Richard A. Coffey, Donna R. Casella, Michael O'Hearn, Ed McManis, and John Gaterud.
Original wood engravings and intaglios by Kent Aldrich; Dale Kennedy; Joel Moline; William Andrew Myers; James Todd; Jim Westergard; and Brad Widness. Cover by Jim Brandenburg.
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Original wood engravings and intaglios by Kent Aldrich; Dale Kennedy; Joel Moline; William Andrew Myers; James Todd; Jim Westergard; and Brad Widness. Cover by Jim Brandenburg.
It's the third day of autumn, and the windows are open, the fountain splashing. My children have been back in school for several weeks now, the refrigerator clicks on and off, the cats snooze... But rather than catching up, cleaning up, and throwing out -- those chores of post-summer vacation -- I long for the wild blue yonder.
Used to be, in the times between and just after college, that we'd throw a few things in a paper bag and take off for an island in Superior, a martini in Louisiana, the horizon of the Grand Tetons or San Francisco. Those were the pre-cassette days (or at least our cars didn't have the equipment), so we listened to the radio, or we listened to the wind. Funny, I don't remember great conversations from those trips. I recall tension, joy, the comfort of the glowing dials -- but no breakthroughs in the dialectic.
That's the beauty of the journey, I suppose. Wool gathering may be a euphemism for aimless talk, but it has nothing to do with a train's careful winding towards a destination, or the highway's long exhalation of farewell.
A few years ago, John Gaterud and his family got in their car to drive five hours towards an actual product of the anti-wool gathering, this sensation of anticipation and release. They were going to see Jack Kerouac's manuscript of On the Road. All 120 feet of it.
Gaterud writes, "So there in the low dark cool of the museum, unfurled and glowing beneath steelframed glass, lies On the Road in all its battered typescript glory, a story now fifty years long..."
That long road of a manuscript got Gaterud thinking, and this summer he released a 256-page compendium of the open road of new writing called The Blueroad Reader.
The large page and spare, handsome design are a relief for the eye, and the stories, poems, and essays divers, accomplished, often breathtaking. Independent press editors, take note: the fiction talent here is outstanding.
Gaterud says that this Blueroad Reader is only the first of many, for "...line by line, mile after mile, Jack is still talking after all these years. That's why we're publishing this book,... [hoping] to conjure visions for others to read and consider, reflections from passing roads while listening for that horn to blow."
And we'll be the figure in the rearview mirror, waving. --ForeWord Magazine
Inspired by the ghost of Jack Kerouac, the father-daughter team from Janesville, Minn., captures the spirit of the modern pilgrim in this anthology of new essays, poems and stories -- the first of what the Gateruds hope will be many Blueroad Readers. Many Minnesota favorites are among the book's 38 contributors, including Bill Holm, John Rezmerski, Phil Bryant, Freya Manfred and Joyce Sutphen. They bring us the news from New Orleans, Iceland, Mexico, England; from nursing homes, cemeteries and cornfields; from inside their imaginations -- wherever the road has taken them. All are enhanced by handsome etchings and woodblock illustrations and graced with a striking cover photo, Ice on Judd Creek, by Jim Brandenburg. A perfect companion for both the restless and the road-weary. --Minneapolis Star Tribune
With its recent publication of Stardust and Fate: The Blueroad Reader, Blueroad Press is the newest kid on the vibrant Minnesota small press block. The fiction and literary nonfiction stories and poems that comprise the collection, the first volume of what Blueroad hopes will be an annual publication, rambles across the Upper Midwest, the United States and parts farther flung. Like any good road trip, the volume, edited by John Gaterud, has its ups and downs, but it doesn't take much digging to find gems. In Ed McManis's series of poems, "Postcards to Mike," a chaperone on a student trip to Europe sends postcards to an invisible friend, "Europe is still/the puzzle piece floating between Columbus/and the Beatles. They brag about Italian wine/imagine French prostitutes they'll coax, the strength/of the American dollar." In Mark Dewey's "Franklin Finds Out," a father laments the loss of the weekly road trips with his daughter for her piano lessons. The narrator in Rachael Hanel's "The First Glimpse" meditates on the deaths of members of her family. The book (which is unfortunately a little too unwieldy to be brought along when readers hit the road) is illustrated is subtle black-and-white engravings. With this inaugural publication, Blueroad Press needn't worry about getting beat up by the bigger kids on the small press block. --City Pages, Minneapolis
Used to be, in the times between and just after college, that we'd throw a few things in a paper bag and take off for an island in Superior, a martini in Louisiana, the horizon of the Grand Tetons or San Francisco. Those were the pre-cassette days (or at least our cars didn't have the equipment), so we listened to the radio, or we listened to the wind. Funny, I don't remember great conversations from those trips. I recall tension, joy, the comfort of the glowing dials -- but no breakthroughs in the dialectic.
That's the beauty of the journey, I suppose. Wool gathering may be a euphemism for aimless talk, but it has nothing to do with a train's careful winding towards a destination, or the highway's long exhalation of farewell.
A few years ago, John Gaterud and his family got in their car to drive five hours towards an actual product of the anti-wool gathering, this sensation of anticipation and release. They were going to see Jack Kerouac's manuscript of On the Road. All 120 feet of it.
Gaterud writes, "So there in the low dark cool of the museum, unfurled and glowing beneath steelframed glass, lies On the Road in all its battered typescript glory, a story now fifty years long..."
That long road of a manuscript got Gaterud thinking, and this summer he released a 256-page compendium of the open road of new writing called The Blueroad Reader.
The large page and spare, handsome design are a relief for the eye, and the stories, poems, and essays divers, accomplished, often breathtaking. Independent press editors, take note: the fiction talent here is outstanding.
Gaterud says that this Blueroad Reader is only the first of many, for "...line by line, mile after mile, Jack is still talking after all these years. That's why we're publishing this book,... [hoping] to conjure visions for others to read and consider, reflections from passing roads while listening for that horn to blow."
And we'll be the figure in the rearview mirror, waving. --ForeWord Magazine
Inspired by the ghost of Jack Kerouac, the father-daughter team from Janesville, Minn., captures the spirit of the modern pilgrim in this anthology of new essays, poems and stories -- the first of what the Gateruds hope will be many Blueroad Readers. Many Minnesota favorites are among the book's 38 contributors, including Bill Holm, John Rezmerski, Phil Bryant, Freya Manfred and Joyce Sutphen. They bring us the news from New Orleans, Iceland, Mexico, England; from nursing homes, cemeteries and cornfields; from inside their imaginations -- wherever the road has taken them. All are enhanced by handsome etchings and woodblock illustrations and graced with a striking cover photo, Ice on Judd Creek, by Jim Brandenburg. A perfect companion for both the restless and the road-weary. --Minneapolis Star Tribune
With its recent publication of Stardust and Fate: The Blueroad Reader, Blueroad Press is the newest kid on the vibrant Minnesota small press block. The fiction and literary nonfiction stories and poems that comprise the collection, the first volume of what Blueroad hopes will be an annual publication, rambles across the Upper Midwest, the United States and parts farther flung. Like any good road trip, the volume, edited by John Gaterud, has its ups and downs, but it doesn't take much digging to find gems. In Ed McManis's series of poems, "Postcards to Mike," a chaperone on a student trip to Europe sends postcards to an invisible friend, "Europe is still/the puzzle piece floating between Columbus/and the Beatles. They brag about Italian wine/imagine French prostitutes they'll coax, the strength/of the American dollar." In Mark Dewey's "Franklin Finds Out," a father laments the loss of the weekly road trips with his daughter for her piano lessons. The narrator in Rachael Hanel's "The First Glimpse" meditates on the deaths of members of her family. The book (which is unfortunately a little too unwieldy to be brought along when readers hit the road) is illustrated is subtle black-and-white engravings. With this inaugural publication, Blueroad Press needn't worry about getting beat up by the bigger kids on the small press block. --City Pages, Minneapolis
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- PublisherBlueroad Press
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0979650909
- ISBN 13 9780979650901
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
- EditorJohn Gaterud
- IllustratorKent Aldrich, Dale Kennedy, Joel Moline, William Andrew Myers
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