The book is a wonderful debut collection of prose poems and flash fictions, short short stories of beautiful precisions and understated passions. W...
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Feb 28, 2008
Myfanwy
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Be prepared: Oh Baby, Kim Chinquee's debut collection, will knock you on your ass.
It's a book about love: mother for child; child for mother, for father; man for woman; woman for man and man and man. Love for running. Love for vodka.
It's a book about women: a runner, an artist, a nurse, a mother, a girlfriend, a wife, a daughter, a friend. A drawer of blood.
A woman who lives in England, in the midwest, in some nameless place.
A woman.
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It's a book about love: mother for child; child for mother, for father; man for woman; woman for man and man and man. Love for running. Love for vodka.
It's a book about women: a runner, an artist, a nurse, a mother, a girlfriend, a wife, a daughter, a friend. A drawer of blood.
A woman who lives in England, in the midwest, in some nameless place.
A woman.
But More...
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Jun 06, 2008
Beverly
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Oh Baby is certainly a strange little book. It's taken me awhile to read it because my tiny mind couldn't quite 'get with the program' in the beginning.
This is ostensibly a book of flash fiction and prose poems. But it is like no other that I've read. Minimalism is the name of the game, but there is an underlying 'voice' that is so full of tremors and unbridled pathos that it is almost painful to read the terse, carefully sculpted wordage of Oh Baby's offerings. And exciting too, More...
This is ostensibly a book of flash fiction and prose poems. But it is like no other that I've read. Minimalism is the name of the game, but there is an underlying 'voice' that is so full of tremors and unbridled pathos that it is almost painful to read the terse, carefully sculpted wordage of Oh Baby's offerings. And exciting too, More...
Apr 09, 2008
Pia
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You won't believe how much plot, trouble, feeling, wit and bite Kim Chinquee can fit into such small pieces of real estate. I think she's Pure-D brilliant and these short pieces are her territory. Her work's been in every issue of NOON and scattered through a hundred lit mags, so to sit and read a book of these gems is a gift. Wrenching. Visceral. My stomach dropped in some of them. So I read them again. Bravo to Ravenna Press Books for publishing her.
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Mar 16, 2008
Randall
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Amazing, the power that Ms. Chinquee packs into these condensed pieces. A major talent, for sure. Her genius lies in her ability to find both profound meaning and haunting emotion in so few words. I've read her work in a number of journals, including QUICK FICION and Diane Williams's NOON, and have always been blown away by her work. What a pleasue it is to see her work collected. Oh Baby.
Jun 01, 2008
Jeff
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Darkly funny, odd, heartbreaking, (very) short, and perfectly detailed--read Kim Chinquee's work and enter a hundred different worlds with the best kind of tour guide: the kind that doesn't miss what goes on in the shadows of the world. You can read her book in one sitting, and that's good, because you'll want to read it again and again.
Jun 24, 2008
Brandon
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Short, strange, each story has a great payoff. Chinquee is so good.
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Dec 04, 2008
Pamela
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terrific examples of that difficult genre, the short-short story. Some especially wonderful stories are "Oh Baby," "Kin," "Wishbook," "Laughing Gas," and "Viral"... but there are many others!
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Jun 08, 2008
Kevin
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This was my fist reading of any flash fiction. It was a great read.
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Mar 28, 2008
Avital
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Beautiful, tight, moving, a unique Kim's language of life translation.
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Mar 13, 2009
Kevin
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One of the blurbs on the back of this book really stuck in my head while I read this. It likens Kim's work to a sculpture by Giacometti-- pared down until only the essentials remain. My experience with this book was entirely the opposite. It seems like an easy comparison to make, given that her stories are so short. But to me her work isn't about peeling things away, it's more impressionistic, pointillistic even. Yes the stories are short, but she focuses on a variety of details and emotions in
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May 14, 2009
Greg
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Kim stories are often no longer than a page or two but contain incrediblely precise insights into the human condition. She speaks of hopes, regrets, lost loves, child’s play.
A wonderful book.
A wonderful book.
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Nov 25, 2008
Timothy
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She wrote an unbelievable book of storis in few words. He finished it over a wait at an airport. He was happy when the plane came in.
May 31, 2009
Ben
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A collection of flash fiction and prose poems that seem to fall somewhere between shotgun blasts and song.
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Nov 28, 2008
A MUST read. The prose butters through each splendid story!
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Aug 28, 2008
Claudia
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Kim Chinquee is one of the writers who first got me interested in writing short-shorts. These stories cut right into space; Chinquee's sentences are precise and intimate. There's an undertow to these pieces, a feeling of significance to each image and every word. They are beautiful marbles that read as planets. Just don't miss this book if you are interested in flash fiction.
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Apr 26, 2010
Robert
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On first read I thought, so what? Then as I read the second time, I slowed down. Ingested each page, each flash fiction piece. Now I think she is a master. Check out her website at Elimae, online fiction, prose and poetry. Chinquee is the flash fiction editor.
Jun 28, 2008
Kevin
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Really great flash fiction collection. Kim's stuff is mysterious and weird and disjointed. Fans of Noon and Diane Williams should have this.
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