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
Some dilemmas have no acceptable resolutions. When is the right time to die, especially if someone is just beginning life? Three decades after her baby son died, Putnam examines a terrible decision, the nature of grief over a long period of time, and the phenomenon of souls.
The Land of Stone and River, a poetry book
Winner of the Moon City Press Poetry Prize
Putnam explores being human 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.
Wild Thing in Our Known World
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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 Poetry/Prose 