Kathleen N. March Livres

A stunning debut from a retired Spanish professor that reads like two measures of Lucia Berlin and one of Nikolai Gogol. Reading like two measures of Lucia Berlin and one of Nikolai Gogol, The Hole in the Ocean is a stunning debut from a retired professor of Spanish. Kathleen March's brief and intimate stories keenly tease mundanity into existential, stark, and oftentimes hilarious buoyancy. A remarkably unique and profound collection. "The Hole in the Ocean is utterly original and captivating: Kathleen March is the best of guides, inviting her reader into a vivid dream of stories--each brief, lavish voyage rich in color and texture and connected by delicate threads to the next, until you realize you've somehow traveled across shimmering reaches of time and space. She reminds me of Colette--indelible impressions made with the lightest and most daring hand. Pleasure, heartbreak, solitude--and solace--all are inseparable here: the best of companions in this writer's vision."--Marjorie Sandor, author of The Secret Music at Tordesillas Fiction.

An anthology of women writing poetry in Galician today. The language of the area of Spain known as Galicia (A Coruña, Pontevedra, Lugo, Ourense), Galician has survived from the middle ages and in the post-Franco era has entered a period of creativity in all media. The women who have used this medium of expression for their poetry are of varying ages and perspectives, but they have in common their gender and a desire to identify with their area of birth. The volume is an example of how this double minority has been writing since the 1960s.