Easter Rabbit

by Joseph Young

Fiction. Joseph Young's microfictions are delicate in their profundity. Each of the 76 stories are so tightly crafted that the richness is clear through the spare word counts.

Genres: Fiction, Poetry

93 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Kevin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wanted to like this book more but it was too inconsistent and I found myself wanting more of a hook to hold onto. There's some beautiful lines but they're sometimes followed by another line that detracts or distracts. I'd like to see what Mr. Young does next though. He's on to something, I'm just not sure what.

[Amelia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Joe Young’s lovely little fictions present objects and parts, voices guiding voices, striking images in solid prose. A city of familiar scenes rises around the reader, who may be surprised to find how quickly they attach and draw her near. These are puzzles best devoured slowly.

[Kathy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Review here at the JMWW blog: http://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/

[Benjamin Niespodziany · Rating 5 out of 5]

Micros that pack a surrealist wallop.

[Joe · Rating 5 out of 5]

These are prose-poems (micro fictions ok ok) that are not surreal. I don't know why that is an exception but it is. Instead Joe's images are dense, they are real things with a hyperabundance of being. Part of it is syntax, sentences that list but without the word and or or--"He thanked the doctor and went to the park, the low bubble of children, the pale, beatific mothers"--so things crowd in on one another, fold up around each other tightly but never never transform without the authorization of the reader: "He followed at a distance, one print on the dirt, the shape of her watered in the moon." Though unchanging, things, through devotion, maybe speak and that means your desires don't matter.

[Meg Pokrass · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is a book I've been waiting a long time to see and could not be more enamored with Easter Rabbit. One becomes so excited about writing as one reads these tiny perfect stories!!! I have reread them and reread them.

These pieces (so tiny, one will not believe they can produce such fullness) contain a deep and gentle awe and wonder about the world we inhabit. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Joseph Young is the master of microfiction,

Kudos, Joseph Young.

[Cathy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am adding this book to my read shelf - and I am currently re-reading, dipping in for inspiration and because I am exploring micro fiction.

These stories are so achingly beautiful, some quite mysterious, with wit and verve. There's no such thing as a too-short story, if it is told well and exactly. I'd rather read shorter fiction as well-done as this than a many a famous but flabby novel.

Perhaps I love the mystery more each time I read the stories.

[Adam · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's my press that published the book so of course I think it's great. But I was just rereading one of the stories and decided I could read it forever. The story is called "Another Thing," and I actually bought the exclusive rights for it last year. At $100, it was worth every penny.

With this book, I'm licensing it to readers everywhere for unlimited use.

[John · Rating 5 out of 5]

An incredibly new take on literature. Joe's idea pf what language can comprise a narrative and his experiments with brevity gave me a feeling similar to the first time I read Gary Lutz's Stories in the Worst Way. I expect to reread stories from Easter Rabbit often.

[Laura Ellen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I go back to this book again and again. The cure for irony or otherwise having your head stuck up your rear. I wish I could give it a prize or something.

My poet-friend read it while he was sick with the flu. It made him feel better than nyquil.

[Robb Todd]

Freeze a moment. Listen to the sound. See the colors.

Do yourself a favor and read the lines in this book aloud. It is compressed and shot through. It is difficult to fashion words in such a way but, when done so, you must read them again.

[Gabriel]

FOURTH CERTAINTY, RIGHT TIME

He shared a cigarette with the dentist, who'd just pulled a tooth, the nurse from next door. I have a man inside, she said, with a tumor in his eye. They stopped, marked the quiet of the suffering train.

[Joseph Young · Rating 5 out of 5]

Easter Rabbit is now in reprint, with a brand new cover by original cover artist Christine Sajecki and a new section of stories. Thanks, goodreading friends!

[P.H. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not easy to review. More an experience than a book.

[Melissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reading this book is like attending a master class on the art of the turn inside the wet mouth of the girl from Hills Like White Elephants.

[Biscuits · Rating 4 out of 5]

Publishing Genius continues to be one of the most trusted indie presses. Love this books sense of form. Small and subtle but works a wide range of emotions and angles within that.

[Tracy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful, tiny stories. Favorite line: "Still, there was more summer in her mouth than he would have known in a wild of work."

[Peter Zuppardo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Here is the first story:

A white line, across the cement, under the park, through the door, faint and hardly there, to its red center.

[Sheldon Compton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Young is one of my top ten favorite writers.

[Mike Young · Rating 5 out of 5]

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