September 25th, 2013 | by debbie | published in Chris Ransick | Leave A Comment »
“Never Summer” speaks tenderly…layered so the perception of reality becomes almost super-real. This book is an everyday world where tragedy and bad news occasionally intrude. So does an ironic humor. Through all the ups and downs, there is a thread of confidence in the future, the belief that “we will build a lasting home.” ISBN: 978-1-938633-23-2 […]
September 24th, 2013 | by debbie | published in Chris Ransick, Fiction | Leave A Comment »
A Colorado Book Award finalist, A Return to Emptiness is a collection of short stories about life, loss, and love. In Ransick’s words, “Loss is common to us all, yet multifarious in individual experience. I wrote these stories not primarily to describe loss but to circumscribe it-which is to say that I drew a circle of narratives […]
September 24th, 2013 | by debbie | published in Chris Ransick, Poetry | Leave A Comment »
Language for the Living and the Dead is a new collection of poetry by Chris Ransick, appointed Denver Poet Laureate in 2006 and winner of the Colorado Book Award. These hauntingly beautiful poems explore the tense, sometimes sloppy line between life and death, joy and despair, and how paying attention to the simple delights of good […]
