Robert Vivian is a professor of English and creative writing at Alma College in Michigan and a core faculty member in the low-residency MFA program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. His stories, poems, and essays have appeared in numerous publications, and his plays have been produced in New York City. He is the author of Cold Snap as Yearning and the Tall Grass Trilogy, which includes The Mover of Bones, Lamb Bright Saviors, and Another Burning Kingdom, all available from the University of Nebraska Press.
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Acknowledgments I. Hauntings Ghost Hallway Hearing Trains Ashtray County Gestures in Waiting Casino Love Walking with Marisa The Fog Sleepers Hotel in Auschwitz Death of a Shortstop Notes from the Konukevi II. Folk Music Beggar on the Danube Looking for the Bishop Doctor Whisper Starlight in a Spoon A Prejudice of Teeth These Faces Porch Falling Shadows Moving Porch-Wise Falling into the Arms of a Dervish III. Hope Town Army of Wonder Guardian of the Lost Bell Bus Stop Elegy Every Day a Flower Opens Washed Away Working in the Jewish Cemetery Latecomer to Glorious Places Seeing a Lake from Far Away Why I Go North How Gunshots Became a Comfort to Me
"Robert Vivian is a rare gift to readers - a writer whose natural subject is the soul. In his essays, whether his setting is Turkey, Hungary, or the hallway of his Michigan home, Vivian invokes and portrays the rich and startling inner realms of experience of which he is both in trembling awe and utterly unafraid." Lawrence Sutin, author of When to Go into the Water: A Novel