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Stories of coming together, breaking apart, paper thin walls, god-like boyfriends, women imagined from dreams, pig farmers, the mundane romance of hospitality service, the quiet evenings smoking a single cigarette on the back porch with a person who knows you better than you know yourself, that is falling in love.
For fans of Etgar Keret, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, George Saunders, and Dennis Johnson, these stories dip into the worlds of fabulism and realism. Everyone is smoking. Everyone is trying their best.
Collected stories from Salvetti over the course of five years, before, during, and after his years at UNC Wilmington in the writing program. These stories were living on a hard drive inside a drawer, and he wanted them to be in the world, of the world, and for the world.
Written primarily during Berry’s time living in the St. Louis neighborhood of Soulard, these poems gesture toward questions that remain, peacefully, just beyond the poet’s reach. They come from life in the city — a new life in a little apartment with beets and carrots growing out back, a sweat-bee keeping company. Soulard Poems is a walk and smoke and thought in the early morning.
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“These are poems I will return to again and again, as I do the poems of Tomas Transtromer or Yehuda Amichai. They evidence a being fully present – alive to a world both light and dark, a world of sky and trees, as ordinary as beetles in the basement or last call at the bar. Reading them, one feels how brave and wondrous it can be to live even a single day. Each poem manifests a humble philosophy of its moment with a clarity experienced rather than held, and not so much spoken as ‘sounded out.’ Berry writes, ‘There is an explosion and a song / in almost everything.’ Even as the speaker of the poems acknowledges the ghosts that are his familiars, we understand how unconditional are the clarity and the joy.”
-Paula Closson Buck, author of You Cannot Shoot a Poem and Litanies Near Water
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C. Berry holds an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. His writing has appeared in such places as 3Elements Review, Open Minds Quarterly, Past Ten, West Branch Wired, The Writer’s Chronicle and elsewhere. The choral work Love, by Dr. William Payn, features a poem by Berry as lyrics to the piece “When All is Full.” Raised in the Midwest, Berry now lives in North Carolina.
Between is a novella about three members of a small-town New England family, a mother and two sons, as they settle into the darkness of the cold season, contemplating the recent events that have disquieted their home.
Told in a scattered narrative, the darkness of the season takes it toll on this gentle family as they cross into different versions of themselves that pulls at the fabric that makes up their family unit.
Kyle Alderdice is a writer and French translator from New York,
currently living in North Carolina. He has published poetry,
nonfiction, and fiction, including the Editor’s Choice selection
for Carve Magazine’s 2023 Raymond Carver Contest, and was
a summer 2024 Bread Loaf participant. He studied French and
Political Science at Duke University and is an MFA candidate
in Fiction at UNC Wilmington
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