SECONDS, a novella
Two couples spending an evening together in an old Colonial home, as they have done many times before. A storm building across an ancient, indifferent New England landscape. Two old friends and one woman whose striking paintings adorn the walls, and whose absence haunts the memories of the men and the imaginations of their second wives. Who belongs in such a world? Can anyone else get in? Can anyone disenfranchised get back in? A slow-burn, taut examination of what we most wish were not true of who we’ve been and what we’ve longed for.
Double Negative, a brief memoir
Winner of the Split/Lip Press CNF chapbook Award
Double Negative examines the grammatical logic that two negatives make a positive, that an impossibility can ever be resolved by word rearrangement or by rearrangements of the physical body. The impossibility is the death of an infant, the author’s son Jacob, from an immutable heart defect that medicine, nonetheless, asserts there are options to treat. When is the right time to die, especially if someone is just beginning life? Three decades after her decision regarding Jacob’s fate…
The Land of Stone and River, a poetry book
Winner of the Moon City Poetry Award
The Land of Stone and River explores the wonder and terror of being human in a world both at its apex (in this period of between the earth’s various traceable ends, anyway) and tipping at the brink of another major extinction event. People are small beings in a vast, ungraspable landscape of geography, time, and disaster—at the mercy of wind, tangled in history, caught in illness that can seem as inexorable as weather, tide, or geology. We persist. And the world with us.
Wild Thing in Our Known World, a poetry chapbook
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What is wild? What is known? The poems in this chapbook developed out of years lived in the zone called the “wildlands-urban interface,” where lions creep through backyards and herds of deer stare down morning commuters. What walks the line between the tame and the free may be beautiful and inspiring, but there’s a thread of danger in it. There’s always menace where there’s power.
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Claudia Putnam: Writer/Poetry & Prose 