false 3342229 2 A GUIDE TO FOLKTALES IN FRAGILE DIALECTS by award-winning author and poet Catherynne M. Valente is a delightful collection of poetry, short fables, and fairy tales that explore myth and wonder, ancient and modern, with an introduction by Midori Snyder. <p> "Structured around a series of folktale motifs, Valente's eloquent second full-length poetry collection dissects the perceived roles of women in Earth's and otherworldly fable and myth.... enlightening and enthralling." <br>-- Publishers Weekly <p> "Catherynne Valente writes in the language of dreams, which is not rational and yet always makes sense. I could read the poems in this book a hundred times and find new meanings, new pleasures in them. It is an astonishingly beautiful and deeply satisfying accomplishment ... A brilliant, beautiful book." <br>-- Theodora Goss <p> "A tale of two grandmothers, one mythical, one real, that will gently, inexorably break your heart. A story of a god's petty curse reimagined as a sensual, sexual postmodern nightmare. A sinister conspiracy of black magic and murder hatched in the land of Lewis Carroll. Those are just tiny morsels in the decadent poetic feast found in <i>A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects</i> -- Catherynne Valente doesn't so much retell legends and fairy tales as twist and sculpt them into new shapes, stunning <i>objets d'art</i> built from exhilarating language that never flinch from painful truths." <br>-- Mike Allen, three-time Rhysling Award winner <p> "Her poems enchant, enthrall and devastate, and this collection takes the astonishing skill she showed in <i>Apocrypha</i> and distills it, deepens it, sharpens it into a tool to carve stories out of language. If Sappho had written Ovid's <i>Metamorphoses</i>, she could not have done better than this." <br>-- SF Site <p> Born in the Pacific Northwest in 1979, Catherynne M. Valente is the author of the <i>Orphan's Tales</i> series, as well as <i>The Labyrinth, Yume no Hon: The Book of Dreams, The Grass-Cutting Sword</i>, and four books of poetry, <i>Music of a Proto-Suicide, Apocrypha, The Descent of Inanna</i>, and <i>Oracles</i>. She is the winner of the Tiptree Award and the Million Writers Award and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the World Fantasy Award, the Rhysling Award, and shortlisted for the Spectrum Award. She currently lives in Northeastern Ohio with her partner, two dogs, and two cats. Her sixth novel, <i>Palimpsest</i>, will be released by Bantam Spectra in February of 2009. 3380527 31 5 2008 A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects total:10|5:3|4:6|3:0|2:1|1:0| 10 41 42 4 3342229 1934648353 9781934648353 9 4 4.10 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3342229.A_Guide_to_Folktales_in_Fragile_Dialects 4 0 false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 27 16:20:08 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 27 16:55:06 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3342229 1934648353 9781934648353 9 4 4.10 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3342229.A_Guide_to_Folktales_in_Fragile_Dialects 5 0 false Tue Nov 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 03 17:14:30 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 08:44:16 -0800 2008 1 A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects (Norilana, 2008)

Few things are as worth waiting for as a new book by Catherynne Valente. As these things usually go, few things fill me with imaptientce at the waiting for them as a new book by Catherynne Valente. My current...more...]]> 3342229 1934648353 9781934648353 9 4 4.10 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3342229.A_Guide_to_Folktales_in_Fragile_Dialects 0 0 false Thu Apr 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 07:15:54 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 08:16:12 -0700 2009

In the middle of this now. I like her fiction better but this is excellent.

Excellent book. WHen I read the poems that are NOT specifically mythic, I expected to be disappointed, but...more...]]> 3342229 1934648353 9781934648353 9 4 4.10 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3342229.A_Guide_to_Folktales_in_Fragile_Dialects 4 0 false Thu Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 13 15:35:32 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 09 20:17:37 -0700 2008 3342229 1934648353 9781934648353 9 4 4.10 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3342229.A_Guide_to_Folktales_in_Fragile_Dialects 0 0 false Fri Dec 04 19:15:42 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 04 19:15:42 -0800 2009 3342229 1934648353 9781934648353 9 4 4.10 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3342229.A_Guide_to_Folktales_in_Fragile_Dialects 0 0 false Mon Nov 30 03:52:45 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 02 21:02:11 -0800 2009 3342229 1934648353 9781934648353 9 4 4.10 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3342229.A_Guide_to_Folktales_in_Fragile_Dialects 0 0 false Thu Nov 19 07:58:19 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 07:58:19 -0800 2009 3342229 1934648353 9781934648353 9 4 4.10 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3342229.A_Guide_to_Folktales_in_Fragile_Dialects 0 0 false Tue Nov 17 01:14:28 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 01:14:28 -0800 2009 6156667 1934648345 9781934648346 1 0 4.10 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6156667.A_Guide_to_Folktales_in_Fragile_Dialects 0 0 false Wed Oct 28 10:23:15 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 10:23:15 -0700 2009 3342229 1934648353 9781934648353 9 4 4.10 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3342229.A_Guide_to_Folktales_in_Fragile_Dialects 0 0 false Sun Oct 18 17:10:25 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 17:10:25 -0700 2009 6156667 1934648345 9781934648346 1 0 4.10 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6156667.A_Guide_to_Folktales_in_Fragile_Dialects 0 0 false Thu Oct 15 11:40:43 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 11:40:43 -0700 2009 3342229 1934648353 9781934648353 9 4 4.10 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3342229.A_Guide_to_Folktales_in_Fragile_Dialects 5 0 false Tue Sep 08 14:03:14 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 14:03:14 -0700 2009 3342229 1934648353 9781934648353 9 4 4.10 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3342229.A_Guide_to_Folktales_in_Fragile_Dialects 0 0 false Sat Sep 05 07:00:11 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 07:00:11 -0700 2009 3342229 1934648353 9781934648353 9 4 4.10 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3342229.A_Guide_to_Folktales_in_Fragile_Dialects 0 0 false Tue Aug 18 18:43:44 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 21:49:23 -0700 2009 3342229 1934648353 9781934648353 9 4 4.10 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3342229.A_Guide_to_Folktales_in_Fragile_Dialects 0 0 false Fri Aug 07 12:28:40 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 12:28:40 -0700 2009 3342229 1934648353 9781934648353 9 4 4.10 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3342229.A_Guide_to_Folktales_in_Fragile_Dialects 0 0 false Fri Jul 31 09:42:37 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 09:42:37 -0700 2009 3342229 1934648353 9781934648353 9 4 4.10 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3342229.A_Guide_to_Folktales_in_Fragile_Dialects 0 0 false Thu Jul 23 11:37:22 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 11:37:22 -0700 2009 3342229 1934648353 9781934648353 9 4 4.10 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3342229.A_Guide_to_Folktales_in_Fragile_Dialects 0 0 false Sat Jul 04 15:02:06 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 15:02:06 -0700 2009 3342229 1934648353 9781934648353 9 4 4.10 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3342229.A_Guide_to_Folktales_in_Fragile_Dialects 0 0 false Tue Jun 30 19:01:25 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 19:01:25 -0700 2009 3342229 1934648353 9781934648353 9 4 4.10 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3342229.A_Guide_to_Folktales_in_Fragile_Dialects 0 0 false Thu Jun 11 14:11:15 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 14:11:15 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3342229