
Jesse Ball
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Books by Jesse Ball
Fiction
Prose and Verse, 2003-2008
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Jesse Ball
A fabulist’s compendium of poetry and prose, from one of our most fanciful and “disturbingly original” (Chicago Tribune) writers. These experimental pieces ask the reader not to imagine the world for what it is, but for what it could be: a blank tableau on which a spirited imagination can conjure tales out of, seemingly, nothing.
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