November 6, 2010

Brian Evenson, Calling the Hour

I was going through some papers this morning when I found this. It was a book I was working on — a selection of Brian Evenson stories for elimae books. Things were pretty difficult then, and I had to write to let him know I wouldn’t be able to finish it. When I saw it this morning, it knocked me over — memory, satisfaction, regret in equal doses.

(Front, left. Back, right.)

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  1. Sheila Ryan on November 6th, 2010 at 11:54 am

    That is a potent combination.

  2. Deron Bauman on November 6th, 2010 at 11:55 am

    God speaks today.

  3. Sheila Ryan on November 6th, 2010 at 3:10 pm

    And the design is wonderful.

  4. Rick Neece on November 6th, 2010 at 3:45 pm

    I want to see inside. Will you work on it again, Deron? Or has its time passed?

  5. Deron Bauman on November 6th, 2010 at 3:59 pm

    Rick, that’s a copy of Renner’s Jove Protected by Geese, with the Evenson cover. I know I had pdfs of the Evenson text, to the point I had gotten it, but I haven’t checked if I still have them. I’m pretty sure that ship has sailed. It’s been six years, at least, since that project, and elimae. It felt good to see it, though, plus all the accompanying memories.

  6. Rick Neece on November 6th, 2010 at 5:11 pm

    It is a beautiful cover.

    I own a copy of Jove, from Ravenna. I own copies of many things seen here and on elimae. They sit out in a stack at the end of the loveseat I resurrected from the dump some twenty-seven years ago. (I don’t mean to equate the stack of work with that loveseat.) I thumb through this stack of books, pick up and open one to read as much as I can stand. They have such power, I can’t sit in those presences very long before my own longing turns my admiration to envy. I then set the one I picked up back on the stack.

    I finished Nashville Chrome this morning. I aim to sit with it in the morning to do the task you set before me yesterday, to review it with a link to Amazon. I’m thinking it won’t be long, or a real review, per se (I have little experience with such things, as you have, as Amanda Mae has.) Just a quote or two, with thoughts from someone who grew up then and knew some woods and knew some city and knew some music and knew the desire to be someone he did not grow up to become.

  7. Sheila Ryan on November 6th, 2010 at 5:14 pm

    I treasure my copy of Deron’s Mockingbird.

  8. Derek White on November 8th, 2010 at 4:26 am

    Whatever happened to this collection?

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