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Like the magical Wak-Wak Tree described in its pages, it blossoms with strange enchantments: demon lovers, buried gardens, restless oceans, and above all, language\u2014a ceaseless music that delights as it beckons us into mystery.\"<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014Sofia Samatar, author of <em>The White Mosque<\/em> and <em>The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"sm_text\" style=\"text-align: left\">\"The in between, the transitory, what is absent, or lost\u2015the focus of Rosalind Palermo Stevenson\u2019s stunning new short fiction collection. She asks: Is what we feel more real than reality itself? She answers through dreams, apparitions, love, memory, longing, and spirituality. Palermo Stevenson is a master of the unseen, the glimpsed and the overlooked, trees, a woman, a man, dogs, children, a bird. She is unafraid of dichotomies, distilling what is important in life by viewing what is beyond death to attain beauty.\"<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014Laurie Blauner, author of <em>Out of Which Came Nothing <\/em>and <em>The Solace of Monsters<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\"Rosalind Palermo Stevenson\u2019s writing is often dreamlike, verbal visions that evoke alternative realities that enjoy their own visionary possibilities. \u00a0She accomplishes this sensation though her unique use of language, sentences whose rhythms are mesmerizing, the objects of their content not quite solidly there, as if being observed through a haze of consciousness\u2026<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"sm_text\" style=\"text-align: left\">\"\u2026although some have called this book a collection of stories, it is more a gathering of prose and occasional prose poetry that does not fit into any rigid genre category. These are language pieces that access realms beyond that of most fiction. The \u201cMy Absolute\u201d aspect of the title suggests the philosophical context of the \u201cabsolute\u201d that refers to ultimate reality or truth that exists independently of human perception or understanding. Stevenson seeks language to convey such a reality.\"<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014Walter Cummins, <em>California Review of Books<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"sm_text\" style=\"text-align: left\">\"Rosalind Palermo Stevenson\u2019s recent release, <em>Soul, Ghost, My Absolute<\/em>, brings the reader into the authors streaming world of words rounding bends, straits, splashing outcrops in imagery, metaphor and poetics\u2026 There is a lot of ground covered in these short bursts. Beginning with the Wak-Wak Tree yielding human fruit in various stages of development to various characters in the other pieces, such as the pale teenager who appears and disappears, fire, haunted houses, odd turtles, train stations, rotting structures, Ibis, landfills and scrapheaps\u2026 Palermo Stevenson is a master of imagery laced with metaphor bound in a surrealist casing.\"<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014g emil reutter, <em>North of Oxford<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-970 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Rosalind-Palermo-Stevenson-headshot.jpg\" alt=\"Rosalind Palermo Stevenson\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" \/>Rosalind Palermo Stevenson <\/strong>is the author of the novel <em>The Absent<\/em>, the novella <em>Insect Dreams<\/em>, and the chapbook <em>Kafka At Rudolf Steiner\u2019s<\/em>. Her work has been published in the anthologies: <em>Poe\u2019s Children<\/em> (ed. Peter Straub), <em>Trampoline<\/em> (ed. Kelly Link), and <em>Wild Dreams: The Best of Italian Americana <\/em>(eds. Carol Bonomo Albright and Joanna Clapps Herman), as well as in numerous literary journals. She lives in New York City.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div role=\"tabpanel\" class=\"tab-pane \" id=\"tabs_desc_967_2\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<P>(from: Dusk, The Angelus)<\/P>\r\n\r\n<P style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And to speak with a certain abandon.<BR>\r\n\u00a0<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Or when the mind draws a blank and all I have is that blankness at the entrance to the tunnel where there have been episodes of the fantastic, droll nights, the things I never told you when we were living in the city of Merci at the time of the bomb. The mornings were dark then as if it might rain. Cats lived in the alleyways where the pedestrians walked taking their shortcuts. Angel, you were the executioner\u2019s angel.<BR>\r\n\u00a0<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Putti, les amours, the loves,<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0later and nothing,<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0if I stare with the stare of a stranger.<BR>\r\n\u00a0<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The glow of my hand in the light of a candle. Lessons of the invisible. Grieved one. 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