Stories by Sam Rasnake

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Notes for a Life. In a Swing. No Wind to Speak of. 1443 views
On the Deeper Slants of the Universe 757 views
My Hollows 492 views
Mirror, Handheld 742 views
Variation on a Variation of a Mode 1541 views
Giving Birth to the World 327 views

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Sam Rasnake

Location	shadow of the Cherokee National Forest
Occupation	uncertainty
Website	http://samofthetenthousandthings.wordpress.com/

Books by Sam Rasnake

Necessary motions

by Sam Rasnake

Sow's Ear Press, 1998.

Best of the Web 2009

by Lee K. Abbott, Nathan Leslie

Dzanc Books, 2009.

Religions of the Blood

by Sam Rasnake

, 1998.

Inside a Broken Clock

by Sam Rasnake

Finishing Line Press, 2010.

Cinéma Vérité

by Sam Rasnake

A-Minor Press, 2013.

About Me

Frankenstein, a painting by Brenda Kato, uploaded on December 6th, 2010

Joined Fictionaut: October, 2009

My works have appeared here and there.

Studied with William Stafford, Amy Clampitt, Lee Smith.

Books/Collections:

Necessary Motions (Sow's Ear Press, 1998)
Lessons in Morphology (GOSS183, 2010)

- Tales of Brave Ullyses [Series] -

Religions of the Blood (Pudding House, 1998)
Inside a Broken Clock (Finishing Line Press, 2010)
Cinéma Vérité (A-Minor Press, 2013)
World within the World (Cyberwit, 2020)
Like a Thread to Follow (Cyberwit, forthcoming 2023)

World within the World:
https://www.cyberwit.net/publications/1483

Cinéma Vérité - poems / sketches / parables:
https://www.createspace.com/4377102?ref=1147694&utm_id=6026&cp=70170000000bqKn&ls=Social_Media&sls=FB_Like

Inside a Broken Clock:
https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/inside-a-broken-clock-by-sam-rasnake/

Lessons in Morphology:
http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/100728

I once edited, with Michelle Elvy and Bill Yarrow, the Blue Five Notebook from Blue Fifth Review, a monthly series of poetry, flash, and art. The journal is on hiatus.

http://bluefifthreview.wordpress.com/

Why do you write?

a blank page

Any favorite authors? Books?

Favorite authors: Elizabeth Bishop, Samuel Beckett, Emily Dickinson, William Stafford, James Wright, Yosa Buson, Franz Kafka, Raymond Carver, Jorge Luis Borges, Basho, Flannery O'Connor, Julio Cortázar, Yusef Komunyakaa, Jane Hirshfield, Wisława Szymborska, Donald Barthelme, Anne Carson, Hart Crane, Cormac McCarthy, Frank Stanford, Paul Celan, Thomas Wolfe, James Baldwin, Sam Shepard, Jeanette Winterson, Mary Oliver, Jack Gilbert, Lynda Hull, Larry Levis...

Favorite books: Geography III, Dickinson's Complete Poems, The Branch Will Not Break, Dreamtigers, Narrow Road to the Interior, Wise Blood, Written on the Body, Motel Chronicles, Cathedral, The Metamorphosis, The Fire Next Time, The Meadow, Furious Cooking, Plainwater, Ulysses, Winter Stars, Hopscotch, American Primitive, Even in Quiet Places, The Only World...