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BLUE ALLEYS

Prose Poetry by Paul Christensen

2002 Violet Crown Award for Literature

Published by Stone River Press
Page One Publications
ISBN 0-9627844-6-X

5-1/2x8-1/2 Paperback with Perfect Binding
84 Pages with 39 prose poems

These prose poems are an insightful journey into adolescence and beyond. With powerful and thought-provoking images, Christensen exposes to the nerve his encounters with puberty, love, loss and spiritual awakening. An amazing gift from one of the most talented poets of our time.

2002 Award of Merit for design to Desktop Imaging Services by the Printing Industries of the Gulf Coast, Inc. and Printing & Imaging Association of MidAmerica

LINES FROM THE POEM "PRAYER"

Slowly, like a crusted asteroid turning in the dim glow of stars, I feel my body drift toward God, its gravity coaxing my wandering steps toward ultimate ignorance and oblivion. And I fall flowing like water through the emptiness, letting go all I am in a shower of dusty molecules, which leap at their freedom and disperse.

PAUL CHRISTENSEN is a professor at Texas A&M University where he teaches modern literature and writing. Among his achievements are a William & Mary College literary scholarship, three Pushcart nominations, NEA Writing Grant, member of the Texas Institute of Letters and Fulbright Senior Lecturer in Austria and Norway. He has published over one hundred personal and critical essays in the U.S. and abroad and poetry in over a hundred journals and reviews.

FOR READERS OF FINE PROSE AND POETRY THAT "MERGE INTO PERSONAL, SOCIAL AND MYTHIC LANDSCAPES."