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list price: $23.95
edition:Paperback
category: Fiction
published: May 2018
ISBN:9781896949659
publisher: Mother Tongue Publishing

Crow Jazz

by Linda Rogers

tagged: short stories (single author), humorous, literary
Description

A long awaited dazzling collection of short fiction from one of Canada's most accomplished poets.

These incandescent stories in Crow Jazz come from tree level, the corvid community, where sex and death are celebrated with mirth and compassion. They have clever crow energy, selecting beak sized twitter-bits from life on earth below, with an eye to the bigger picture. Highly inventive; children, families, crows, and the old, bewitch and astonish the imagination. Improvisation, syncopation; all the jazz words come into word play. “Mud Pies”, “The Child City,” “Darling Boy,” The Tea Party,” “Lucy Laughed,” “Elusive Beauty, Virginia Sat Down,” are a few of the twenty-plus polished tales in Linda Roger’s quirky and clever short fiction collection. A wild breath of fresh air for literary Canada.

About the Author
Linda Rogers is a poet, playwright, editor, and journalist whose work has been translated into seven languages. She writes song lyrics for the band Light, Sweet Crude and has an interest in causes that affect the rights of children. She has won, among others, the Dorothy Livesay Award, the Stephen Leacock Poetry Prize, and the Governor General’s Confederation Medal. Linda is the past President of the Federation of BC Writers and the League of Canadian Poets. She lives in Victoria, BC
Editorial Reviews

"In the early stories of Crow Jazz, a fierce laughing girl-child falls for birds and words, discovers sex, plays tricks, sees through hypocrisy, takes revenge, loves the natural world. That sensibility appears often in Linda Rogers' varied characters, in stories often presenting a strong mix of pain and comedy, such as "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" and "Shock Therapy." On every page, Rogers' imagery shines like a crow's glossy wing.”–Cynthia Flood, author of What Can You Do

— Cynthia Flood, author of <i>What Can You Do</i>

"Fuelled by a poet's sensorium and word mischief, Crow Jazz is a jostling ride that, story after story, is funny, angry, wise, and wild. It's a perfect title."

— Bill Gaston, author of <i>Juliet Was a Surprise</i>

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