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  <title><![CDATA[Put Your Head In My Lap]]></title>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My micro-review from the Black Ocean blog: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.blackocean.org/black-ocean-blog/2009/10/26/microreview-monday.html" title="http://www.blackocean.org/black-ocean-blog/2009/10/26/microreview-monday.html">http://www.blackocean.org/black-ocean-bl...</a><br/><br/>Swiss artist Urs Fischer says “art works best in people’s memories” by which he means “it’s not just the act of going to see it on the wall.” Fischer is talking about visual art, but, in the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74737792">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I’ve read a lot of Claudia’s short fiction in the last few years but I wasn’t prepared for the emotional wallop this collection packs. They’re the kind of stories where reviewers toss around words like “heartbreak” and “tender” except the stories are razor sharp and the characters re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75161022">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Oct 14 23:26:52 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the newest book from my press. The thing I love most about this book is its unique tone. Most other flash fiction veers off into the weird or comical, but Claudia's work always seem to bask in a golden glow of melancholy and bittersweet love. I remember reading her previous chapbook and thin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74591424">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the first half of this book in a state of unease, anxiety, and the second half in pleasure. The stories are both anxious and pleasurable. It seems true we can’t separate our mood from the book we read, that unease breeds unease and pleasure, pleasure. But these stories are less separable th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75353274">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is by my friend from library school - I'll have to see if the library can order a copy!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Claudia smith packs more emotion, loss and empathy into a handful of words than most writers do in stories than run on for pages and Put Your Head in My Lap is a terrific collection of flash fiction and short stories in a year that has already seen a number of terrific collections]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book rather quickly and loved it.  I'm looking forward to reading it again, slowly, and savoring the words.  It's been a few days since I finished the book, and yet some of the stories, some of the sentences still haunt me.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[from a review at Rumble Magazine: <br/><br/>&quot;...it is like Claudia Smith is trying to bury me in words, one on another, and they are little words and very unassuming so that even as they steep and mount and touch my chin, I am still only smiling at the way they are used...&quot; <br/><br/>r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74086195">more...</a>]]></body>
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