The Corner of East and Dreams
The Corner of East and Dreams is a collection of nineteen stories which are off-kilter in some way. The stories include re-tellings -- Cassie Bunyan’ s Yarn which gives a voice to Paul Bunyan’ s wife; The Lion’ s Honey which narrates the Biblical story of Samson and Delilah from the point-of-view of Samson’ s savaged lock; The Missing Days of E.A.P. which imagines itself into the interstices of Poe’ s mysterious death; The Unnaming, a metafictional reversal of the Edenic myth; and The Devil in Decline in which a defanged Satan speaks for himself. Aesthetically, the tales range from the social-realistic to cross-genre, from the comic to the somber, from the credible to the fully fantastic of I Married Yeti, from naturalist to fabulist – making every story a surprise.
Joan Connor is a former professor at Ohio University, Fairfield University's MFA Program, and the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast Program. She has published four collections of short fiction and one of personal essays. She is the recipient of an AWP award in short fiction, the Leapfrog Press award for adult fiction, the River Teeth award in nonfiction, a Pushcart Prize, and individual artists award from the Ohio Arts council.