Because the Sky is a Thousand Soft Hurts
Elizabeth Kirschner
Jun 2021 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Khristine Hvam
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"In her brilliant collection Because the Sky is a Thousand Soft Hurts, Elizabeth Kirschner fearlessly blends poetry, prose, memoir, and master storytelling into an amalgam that lands like a gut-punch to the soul. I literally found myself taking a deep breath at the beginning and the end of each story, to both steel and re-orient myself. There is nothing easy about the magic Kirschner casts; rather, its complexity serves to illuminate the indomitability of the human spirit in those deep, dark places where it would seem no spirit could survive. This is a devastatingly beautiful book." -Laura Hurwitz, author of Disappear Home "Because the Sky is a Thousand Soft Hurts is a master stroke. Brimming with a hallucinatory spirit, these are less stories and more poetic and metaphysical voyages. In this collection, Kirschner gives voice to the disturbed and hopeful in her characters' psyches-penetrating the repressed, thrust into the sublime. In its earlier stories, Kirschner brilliantly reinvents the simile, with it granting every sentence a double-life; and the later sections prove not only beautiful in their prose, but with keen sense of narrative drive. A literary achievement, this collection rewards re-reading over and over again." -Jonathan Koven, author of Palm Lines and editor of Toho Journal
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Elizabeth Kirschner has published five volumes of poetry, including My Life as a Doll and Surrender to Light. The former was nominated for the Lenore Marshall Prize and the Patterson Book Prize. Her memoir, Walking the Bones, was published in 2015.
Khristine Hvam is a professional voice artist whose work includes audiobooks, video games, and voice-overs, including as Professor Juniper in the Pokemon television series.
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