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Title: Small Craft Warnings: Stories, Western Literature (Western Literature Series) by Kate Braverman ISBN: 0-87417-321-3 Publisher: University of Nevada Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: philosophy
Comment: What a remarkable collection. Its really a meditation on existence. This is a museum of life in all its sadness and beauty.

Rating: 3
Summary: Thomas Wolfe Meets Bob Dylan
Comment: Kate Braverman's ingenious writing shouts and sings a high skill at poesy and narrative. I think many of her readers are attracted primarily to her imagery and metaphors. There is a sameness at the center of her stories -- illness, death, putrefaction, decline. These brilliant stories follow the trend, and Braverman leans toward epic prose poems. Her characters are memorable in one way, similar in another. What I admore most about her is her intensely evocative setting in LA, proving once more that place can pass for story. If you love clean, spare writing with a strong narrative element and distinctive characters developing new and original themes, these stories are not for you. But if you want gorgeous poems set to prose, gobble it up.

Rating: 5
Summary: rich, lush, poetic short stories
Comment: My favorite type of prose are written by poets. Reading Kate Braverman is like filling on a rich desert. I am reminded of Jeanette Winterson and Arhundati Roy. It is hard to find such deeply poetic prose today. This is not a grocery store paperback--it requires slow reading and it is worth every minute. It is a feast of words and images and ideas.

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