About
Denise Low’s Jackalope: "JACKALOPE is a perfect
blend of stories, poetry, and strangeness. Denise Low has created a collection
that is simultaneously myth and not-myth, a shining delight."—Kij Johnson, Hugo, Nebula, and World
Fantasy Awards winner
"Trickster takes center stage in Denise Low's JACKALOPE, a collection of
prose and poetry recounting the adventures of its title character, Jackalope
Kelley. This anthropomorphic animal is the cryptid on postcards you see at gas
stations across the American Midwest—a rabbit with two iconic pronghorn
antlers. Jackalope Kelley shifts between male and female identities: Jack when
he's a man, Jaq when she's a woman. He drinks a gin and tonic in a Twitter bar.
She passes through Seattle, Santa Fe, Minneapolis, Colorado, and Roswell, among
other places. He vomits when he sees the head of one of his ancestors mounted
above the door in a Wyoming bar. And she searches for a gynecologist—or does he
need a urologist? All of these scenes give the book a playful feel, but there's
also plenty of time for reflection. In quieter moments, Jackalope tries to
explain his complicated heritage to others. ... This merging of shape-shifting
identities with shape-shifting trickster narratives is no accident. The
language of the book is steeped in the Native American mythologies and
vocabularies that Low understands so well."—Ben Pfeiffer, Interviews Editor, The Rumpus Reviews and Other Links Ben Pfeiffer @ KCUR Public Radio Lisa McLendon @ The Wichita Eagle Fred
Whitehead @ Penniless Press
Denise
Low, Ks. Poet Laureate 2007-09, is award-winning author of 25
books, including Melange Block (Red
Mountain Press, 2014), and Kansas Poems of William Stafford. Her fiction
has earned two Pushcart Prize nominations. Low is past board president of
Associated Writers and Writing Programs. She blogs, reviews, and co-publishes
Mammoth Publications. Her professional workshops have national reach, and she
teaches at Baker University. She has British Isles, German, Delaware, and Cherokee
heritage. She has an MFA and PhD.
About
Kim Shuck:
Kim Shuck is a poet, weaver, educator doer of piles of laundry, planter of
seeds,
traveler and child wrangler. She was born in her mother's hometown of
San Francisco, one hill away from where she now lives. Her ancestors were and
are Tsalagi, Sauk and Fox and Polish, for the most part. She earned a Master of
Fine Arts degree in weaving in 1998 from San Francisco State University. As a
poet Kim has read her work around the US and elsewhere. In late 2005 she toured
through Jordan with a group of poets from all over the globe in the interest of
peace and communication. Shuck reads her work on local radio frequently.
Kim's visual
art has been included in shows both locally and abroad such as a textile show
at the National Museum of Taiwan in Taipei and Art, Women, California at the
San Jose Art Museum. She consults with museums and galleries around California
on the subjects of Native artwork and community inclusion. Kim continues
working in schools and has taught at all levels: at San Francisco State
University as well as many elementary schools. Her work with the Exploratorium,
a hands on museum in San Francisco, is included in that museum's "Across
Cultures" series. She's been teaching since 3rd grade when she organized
and taught a class on crochet. Her work generally touches on poetry, art, math,
storytelling, humor, and whatever else seems useful at the time.
About Rabbit Stories: "What Kim Shuck is writing is vital and vibrant. She is blending tradition with modernity, history with humor and her own Indigenous perspective witheverything else. She is kind enough to invite us all into her mind, her life and her tribe through her writing and to smile at us when we realize that we are glad we came, glad we read this evocative book and glad that we met this powerful and significant poet."—Dr. Dawn Karima Pettigrew, author of The Marriage of Saints: A Novel (University of Oklahoma Press, 2006)
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Modern Times Bookstore: “Our politics also shape the organization of
our business. Modern Times has operated as a collective since the very start.
All important management decisions are discussed collectively, and staff
members are eligible to become worker-owners. Modern Times is a member of
NoBAWC, the Northern California Alliance of Worker Collectives. We’re happy to
be a part of a larger network of independent businesses working together to
create worker friendly, conscientious, alternative models of business. And it’s
Modern Times’ collective management structure that allows people to give so
much of themselves, and pour so much of their creativity into a store that
truly reflects the personalities of everybody who works here. Modern Times is a
member of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association, Calle 24
Cultural District and Merchants Association and the United Booksellers of San
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