TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ray,Shann
TI  - Blood fire vapor smoke
SN  - 1950730182
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Portland, Oregon
PB  - Unsolicited Press
KW  - Masculinity
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Violence
KW  - Forgiveness
KW  - Responsibility in literature
KW  - Short stories
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Solace of beauty -- First man -- Republic of fear -- Black Kettle -- Debt men -- Current kings -- Before he sleeps -- Diplomat -- City on the threshold of stars -- Love is blindness -- Spirit of the animal -- Fourteen types of belief -- Black wound -- Hunger, the light -- World clean and bright -- Bear Tooth range
N2  - "A cycle akin to the seasons of life, Blood Fire Vaper Smoke asks questions of the ancient struggle between life and death amidst landscapes new and old. Does ultimate forgiveness answer to ultimate violence in the world? What is the nature of grace? Who determines the fates that move us? A collection of stories opening upon the inner world with the abandon and gravity involved in personal and collective responsibility, the book responds to the present age of engagement, and the collapsing binary of two hungers: violence and forgiveness. Blood Fire Vapor Smoke considers the human myth of regeneration through violence, and the aftermath of loneliness, love, and yearning found in a more merciful expression of human existence. Violence is caught by love, changed, transcended, and transformed into a yearning for restoration, atonement, and the fusion embodied in greater humanity."--Book flap
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