Perfect Objects in Motion

by Lisa Mangini

A chapbook collection of linked short fiction.

44 pages, Paperback

Published December 1, 2014

About the author

Lisa Mangini holds an MFA in creative writing from Southern Connecticut State University, focusing particularly on the intersection of poetry and prose in cross-genre forms. She has five collections of creative work, most recently a poetry chapbook, Ambivalent Nymph, which explores wedding culture through etymology alongside love poems. She is the Founding Editor of Paper Nautilus, an annual print literary journal and small press launched in 2011. Her current project is a manuscript of essays on her favorite pop music as a young adult. She teaches writing at Penn State.

Reviews

[Phillip · Rating 4 out of 5]

These are very detail oriented short stories--as the title might suggest. One of the things that's really effective about Mangini's narrative style here is the close up focus on objects like a straw in a glass of water, lights while driving at night, the graffiti on a train, or a sleeping person's hair. These things become points around which emotional narratives of experience revolve. They refract into the narrators' experiences of longing, separation, closeness, wonder, etc.
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